Usefulness of CHADS2 score to predict C-reactive protein, left atrial blood stasis, and prognosis in patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 535-538

  Maehama, Tomoko ^a   Okura, Hiroyuki ^a   Imai, Koichiro ^a   Yamada, Ryotaro ^a   Obase, Kikuko ^a   Saito, Ken ^a   Hayashida, Akihiro ^a   Neishi, Yoji ^a   Kawamoto, Takahiro ^a   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHADS2 SCORE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOQUAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASES; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77955446306     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.03.067     Document Type: Article

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