Prediction of transition to chronic atrial fibrillation in elderly patients with nonvalvular paroxysmal atrial fibrillation by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Sakabe, Koichi ^a   Fukuda, Nobuo ^a   Fukuda, Yamato ^a   Morishita, Satofumi ^a   Shinohara, Hisanori ^a   Tamura, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Doppler echocardiography; Elderly patients; Pulmonary venous flow; Transmitral inflow; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73249131207     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20489     Document Type: Article

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