Prognostic significance of spontaneous echocardiographic contrast detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in the era of harmonic imaging

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 808-814

  Kupczyńska, Karolina ^a   Kasprzak, Jarosław D ^a   Michalski, Błazej ^a   Lipiec, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Spontaneous echo contrast; Stroke; Survival; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC DIAMETER; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC CONTRAST; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84888117749     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2013.38674     Document Type: Article

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