Cryptogenic stroke and underlying atrial fibrillation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 2478-2486

  Sanna, Tommaso ^a   Diener, Hans Christoph ^c   Passman, Rod S ^e   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^b   Bernstein, Richard A ^e   Morillo, Carlos A ^f   Rymer, Marilyn Mollman ^g   Thijs, Vincent ^h   Rogers, Tyson ⁱ   Beckers, Frank ^j   Lindborg, Kate ⁱ   Brachmann, Johannes ^d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ MEDTRONIC   (United States)

^j MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPLICATION SITE INFLAMMATION; APPLICATION SITE IRRITATION; APPLICATION SITE PAIN; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; STROKE;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STROKE;

EID: 84903485570     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1313600     Document Type: Article

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