Left atrial appendage function in mitral stenosis: Is it determined by cardiac rhythm?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 417-424

  Saygi, Serkan ^a   Turk, Ugur Onsel ^a   Alioglu, Emin ^a   Kirilmaz, Bahadir ^b   Tengiz, Istemihan ^a   Tuzun, Nurullah ^a   Ercan, Ertugrul ^b  

^a Central Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80052881653     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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