Incidence and predictors of left atrial thrombus in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm: A transesophageal echocardiographic study

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 457-460

  Manjunath, Cholenahally Nanjappa ^a   Srinivasa, Kikkeri Hermanna Setty ^a   Panneerselvam, Arunkumar ^a   Prabhavathi, Bhat ^a   Ravindranath, Khandenahally Shankarappa ^a   Rangan, Kapil ^a   Dhanalakshmi, Chandrasekaran ^a  

^a SRI JAYADEVA INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

mitral stenosis; sinus rhythm; TEE; thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 79954997173     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01361.x     Document Type: Article

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