Left atrial appendage emptying fraction assessed by a feature-tracking echocardiographic method is a determinant of thrombus in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-336

  Iwama, Makoto ^a   Kawasaki, Masanori ^b   Tanaka, Ryuhei ^a   Ono, Koji ^a   Watanabe, Takatomo ^b   Hirose, Takeshi ^a   Nagaya, Maki ^a   Noda, Toshiyuki ^a   Watanabe, Sachiro ^a   Minatoguchi, Shinya ^b  

^a GIFU PREFECTURAL GIFU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial function; Thrombosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONVALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY VECTOR IMAGING;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84862798320     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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