What is the natural relationship between left atrial appendage morphology and history of stroke?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 689-690

  Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

EID: 84873355647     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.061     Document Type: Letter

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