Analysis of the left atrial appendage by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-892

  Nakajima, Hideki ^a   Seo, Yoshihiro ^b   Ishizu, Tomoko ^b   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^b   MacHino, Tomoko ^b   Harimura, Yoshie ^b   Kawamura, Ryo ^b   Sekiguchi, Yukio ^b   Tada, Hiroshi ^b   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956304142     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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