Prognostic value of low left atrial appendage wall velocity in patients with ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 576-583

  Tamura, Harutoshi ^a   Watanabe, Tetsu ^a   Nishiyama, Satoshi ^a   Sasaki, Shintaro ^a   Wanezaki, Masahiro ^a   Arimoto, Takanori ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Shishido, Tetsuro ^a   Miyashita, Takehiko ^a   Miyamoto, Takuya ^a   Kubota, Isao ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler tissue imaging; Left atrial appendage wall motion; Left atrial dysfunction; Stroke recurrence; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862807514     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.01.012     Document Type: Article

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