Stroke: Finding atrial fibrillation after cryptogenic stroke

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 666-667

  Pain, Debleena ^a   Halperin, Jonathan L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINUOUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC MONITORING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; NOTE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 84870771079     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.228     Document Type: Note

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