Left atrial function and mortality in patients with NSTEMI: An MDCT study

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1080-1087

  Khl, J Tobias ^a   Møller, Jacob E ^a   Kristensen, Thomas S ^a   Kelbæk, Henning ^a   Kofoed, Klaus F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

computed tomography; left atrium; myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORALITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054102636     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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