Detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with transtelephonic EKG in TIA or stroke patients

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 1666-1670

  Gaillard, N ^a,b   Deltour, S ^a   Vilotijevic, B ^c   Hornych, A ^c   Crozier, S ^a   Leger, A ^a   Frank, R ^a   Samson, Y ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Centre GEAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTELEPHONIC ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 77952990457     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e0427e     Document Type: Article

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