Atrial electromechanical interval may predict cardioembolic stroke in apparently low risk elderly patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 140-148

  Hoshi, Yoko ^a   Nozawa, Yukinaga ^a   Ogasawara, Makoto ^b   Yuda, Satoshi ^b   Sato, Shoko ^a   Sakasai, Takuya ^a   Oka, Makoto ^a   Katayama, Harumi ^a   Sato, Masaya ^a   Kouzu, Hidemichi ^b   Nishihara, Masahiro ^a   Doi, Atsushi ^a   Nishimiya, Takatoshi ^a   Miura, Tetsuji ^b  

^a ASAHIKAWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardioembolic stroke; Left atrial function; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ELECTROMECHANICAL INTERVAL; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHADS2 SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CHADS2 SCORE; LEFT ATRIAL FUNCTION; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 84897050142     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12329     Document Type: Article

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