Left atrial appendage volume increased in more than half of patients with cryptogenic stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Taina, Mikko ^a,b   Vanninen, Ritva ^a,b   Hedman, Marja ^a   Jäkälä, Pekka ^a,b   Kärkkäinen, Satu ^a   Tapiola, Tero ^c   Sipola, Petri ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c North Kymi Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE VOLUME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84891931952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079519     Document Type: Article

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