Left atrial remodeling assessed by transthoracic echocardiography predicts left atrial appendage flow velocity in patients with paroxysmal Atrial fibrillation

International Heart Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 177-182

  Watanabe, Atai ^a   Suzuki, Shinya ^b   Kano, Hiroto ^b   Matsuno, Syunsuke ^b   Takai, Hideaki ^b   Kato, Yuko ^b   Otsuka, Takayuki ^b   Uejima, Tokuhisa ^b   Oikawa, Yuji ^b   Nagashima, Kazuyuki ^b   Kirigaya, Hajime ^b   Kunihara, Takashi ^b   Sagara, Koichi ^b   Yamashita, Naohide ^a   Sawada, Hitoshi ^b   Aizawa, Tadanori ^b   Yajima, Junji ^b   Yamashita, Takeshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inter atrial conduction time; Left atrial blood stasis; Transmitral flow

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

A WAVE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; P WAVE; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL REMODELING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 84961583772     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.15-345     Document Type: Article

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