The left atrial appendage: Can anatomical characteristics be used to predict strokes in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients?

Future Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 451-453

  Kimura, Takehiro ^a   Takatsuki, Seiji ^a   Fukuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage; Morphology; Stroke; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE DURATION; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84880350711     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.13.37     Document Type: Review

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