Predictive value of newly detected atrial fibrillation paroxysms in patients with acute ischemic stroke, for atrial fibrillation after 90 days

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2134-2136

  Higgins, Peter ^a   Dawson, Jesse ^a   Macfarlane, Peter W ^a   McArthur, Kate ^a   Langhorne, Peter ^a   Lees, Kennedy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; ischemic attack, transient; stroke

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MONITORING DEVICE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LACUNAR ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PARTIAL ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R TEST DEVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOTAL ANTERIOR CIRCULATION STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; STROKE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903773074     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005405     Document Type: Article

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