Right atrial appendage function in different etiologies of permanent atrial fibrillation: A transesophageal echocardiography and tissue doppler imaging study

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 384-393

  Sahin, Tayfun ^a   Ural, Dilek ^a   Kilic, Teoman ^a   Bildirici, Ulas ^a   Kozdag, Guliz ^a   Agacdiken, Aysen ^a   Ural, Ertan ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Permanent atrial fibrillation; Right atrial appendage; Tissue Doppler; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOSIS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RIGHT ATRIAL APPENDAGE FUNCTION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77951218295     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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