Usefulness of left atrial volume versus diameter to assess thromboembolic risk in mitral stenosis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1152-1156

  Keenan, Niall G ^a   Cueff, Caroline ^a   Cimadevilla, Claire ^a   Brochet, Eric ^a   Lepage, Laurent ^a   Detaint, Delphine ^a   Himbert, Dominique ^a   Iung, Bernard ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a   Messika Zeitoun, David ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 77957774844     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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