Light and electron microscopic features of surgically excised left atrial appendage in rheumatic heart disease patients with atrial fibrillation and sinus rhythm

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 319-326

  Sharma, Shruti ^a   Sharma, Gautam ^a   Hote, Milind ^a   Devagourou, V ^a   Kesari, Vikas ^a   Arava, Sudhir ^a   Airan, Balram ^a   Ray, Ruma ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN; MYELIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MICROSCOPY; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SARCOPLASM; SINUS RHYTHM; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; TRICUSPID VALVE REPLACEMENT; VALVULOPLASTY; ANNULOPLASTY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL ENLARGEMENT; COMPLICATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC VALVE ANNULOPLASTY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL ENLARGEMENT; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE ANNULOPLASTY; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 84922842107     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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