Effect of elevated left ventricular diastolic filling pressure on the frequency of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-422

  Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Okamura, Atsushi ^a   Koyama, Yasushi ^a   Date, Motoo ^a   Higuchi, Yoshiharu ^a   Inoue, Koichi ^a   Kimura, Ryusuke ^a   Nagai, Hiroyuki ^a   Toyoshima, Yuko ^a   Ozawa, Makito ^a   Ito, Norihisa ^a   Shibuya, Masahiko ^a   Omiya, Shigemiki ^a   Takagi, Takashi ^a   Morisawa, Daisuke ^a   Fujii, Kenshi ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 78951484951     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.09.042     Document Type: Article

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