Relationship between left atrial size and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in acute ischemic stroke

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 629-633

  Fujii, Shuichi ^a,b   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^b   Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^b   Sakai, Kenichiro ^b   Kimura, Kazumi ^b  

^a Kagamino Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Left atrial size; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 74249100452     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.49.629     Document Type: Article

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