Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and thromboembolic risk in atrial fibrillation: diastolic dysfunction and thromboembolic risk in AF

Int J Cardiol. 2013 Sep 20;168(1):547-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.208. Epub 2013 Feb 28.

Authors

Jedrzej Kosiuk¹, Ole Breithardt, Kerstin Bode, Jelena Kornej, Arash Arya, Thomas Gaspar, Gerhard Hindricks, Andreas Bollmann

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrophysiology, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: jedrzejkosiuk@hotmail.com.

PMID: 23453879
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.208

No abstract available

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Diastolic dysfunction; Stroke; Thromboembolic risk.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Atrial Fibrillation / diagnosis
Atrial Fibrillation / epidemiology
Atrial Fibrillation / physiopathology*
Diastole / physiology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Registries
Risk Factors
Thromboembolism / diagnosis
Thromboembolism / epidemiology
Thromboembolism / physiopathology*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnosis
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / epidemiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology*