ELAT STUDY (EMBOLISM IN LEFT ATRIAL THROMBI) - BASE-LINE CLINICAL ANDECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DATA

Authors
STOLLBERGER C ABZICHER C ERNST G KRUTISCH G LANGER T LUTZ W REISINGER R SLANY J WINKLER B BACHL C MISCHURETZ M PESCHL L KRONIK G SCHUH M STEININGER P CHNUPA P HATALA R HAVLINOVA K RIECANSKY I SIMO M SCHNEIDER B REINBACHER Z
Citation
C. Stollberger et al., ELAT STUDY (EMBOLISM IN LEFT ATRIAL THROMBI) - BASE-LINE CLINICAL ANDECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DATA, Cardiology, 86(6), 1995, pp. 457-463
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00086312
Volume
86
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
457 - 463
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-6312(1995)86:6<457:ES(ILA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
By transesophageal echocardiography, the prevalence of left atrial/app endage thrombi and spontaneous echo contrast and the size of the left atrial appendage and their association with clinical and echocardiogra phic characteristics were evaluated in 409 nonrheumatic atrial fibrill ation outpatients (62 +/- 12 years) without recent (<1 year) embolism. Left atrial/appendage thrombi (2.5%) were associated with diabetes (p < 0.05), heart failure (p < 0.05) and low fractional shortening (p < 0.001); spontaneous echo contrast (12%) with advanced age (p < 0.01), constant atrial fibrillation (p < 0.01), hypertension (p < 0.01), hear t failure (p < 0.05), valvular abnormalities (p < 0.01) and large left atrial diameter (p < 0.01), and large left atrial appendages with con stant atrial fibrillation (p < 0.05), diabetes (p < 0.05) and valvular abnormalities (p < 0.05).