Transthoracic echocardiography to rule out paroxysmal atrial fibrillation as a cause of stroke or transient ischemic attack

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3643-3645

  Stahrenberg, Raoul ^a   Edelmann, Frank ^a   Haase, Beatrice ^a   Lahno, Rosine ^a   Seegers, Jochen ^a   Weber Krüger, Mark ^a   Mende, Meinhard ^c   Wohlfahrt, Janin ^a   Kermer, Pawel ^a   Vollmann, Dirk ^a   Hasenfuß, Gerd ^a   Gröschel, Klaus ^b   Wachter, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 84856217937     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.632836     Document Type: Article

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