Importance of the underlying substrate in determining thrombus location in atrial fibrillation: Implications for left atrial appendage closure

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1120-1126

  Mahajan, Rajiv ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Sullivan, Thomas ^a   Lim, Han S ^a   Alasady, Muayad ^a   Abed, Hany S ^a   Ganesan, Anand N ^a   Nayyar, Sachin ^a   Lau, Dennis H ^a   Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^b,c   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE CLOSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84863790167     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-301799     Document Type: Review

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