Atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke: Look harder, look longer, but just keep looking

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3184-3185

  Lau, Yee Cheng ^a   Lane, Deirdre A ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Editorials; Electrocardiography; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; STROKE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 84922480450     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006862     Document Type: Editorial

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