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A novel method to demonstrate thrombus formation of the left atrial appendage in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation by cardiac computed tomography

BACKGROUND: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is currently the gold standard technique for diagnosing left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombi. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been expected to become an alternative method to TEE; however, a reliable quantitative evaluation method has not been e...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Motohide, Yasuoka, Ryobun, Nagano, Tomoya, Kotake, Yasuhito, Maruyama, Masahiro, Yamamoto, Hiromi, Iwanaga, Yoshitaka, Hirano, Yutaka, Nakazawa, Gaku, Kurita, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8433278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34527805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2021.100866