Noninvasive cardiac event monitoring to detect atrial fibrillation after ischemic stroke: A randomized, controlled trial

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2525-2531

  Higgins, Peter ^a   MacFarlane, Peter W ^a   Dawson, Jesse ^a   McInnes, Gordon T ^a   Langhorne, Peter ^a   Lees, Kennedy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Atrial fibrillation; Ischemic attack; Stroke; Transient

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE LABORATORY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE PATIENT;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; STROKE;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884480310     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.001927     Document Type: Article

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