Left Atrial Appendage Thrombi in Stroke Patients: Detection with Two-Phase Cardiac CT Angiography versus Transesophageal Echocardiography1

J Hur, YJ Kim, HJ Lee, JW Ha, JH Heo, EY Choi… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
… , and positive and negative predictive values of cardiac CT angiography for the detection of
… obtained 1 day after CT image acquisition shows moderate SEC with no thrombus in LAA. …

Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast in patients with rheumatic mitral valve stenosis in sinus rhythm: relationship to mitral valve and left atrial measurements

AK Agarwal, P Venugopalan - International journal of cardiology, 2001 - Elsevier
Left atrial dimension by M mode examination failed to predict … of left atrium predisposing
to atrial fibrillation and thrombus … Further we have not classified the severity of SEC since we …

Cardiac imaging for assessment of left atrial appendage stasis and thrombosis

J Romero, JJ Cao, MJ Garcia, CC Taub - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
… , mitral regurgitation increases the flow velocity in the left … the most-severe degree of SEC
before thrombus formation and … The positive predictive value (PPV) of TEE in this study was 100…

[PDF][PDF] Predicting a decrease in left atrial appendage flow velocity using left atrial diameter and CHA

G Wang, G Li, F Hu, M Zang, J Pu - 2023 - bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral …
… AF-associated thrombus usually forms in the left atrium and LAA. A decrease in … valve-associated
AF (moderate/severe mitral stenosis and mechanical prosthetic heart valve), severe

[HTML][HTML] Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index as a Predictor of Left Atrial Thrombosis in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation

AK Dolu, FA Akçay, M Atalay… - The Journal of Tehran …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
pulmonary embolism, venous thrombosis, severe heart failure (the New York Heart Association
functional class IV), severe … , severe thrombocytopenia (<50.000/μL), moderate and …

Whole blood viscosity in the evaluation of thrombogenic milieu in mitral stenosis

EH Ozcan Cetin, MS Cetin, MB Ozbay… - Biomarkers in …, 2021 - Future Medicine
… precursor of thrombus formation along with left atrial thrombus, … significant mitral stenosis
patients who had mitral valve area <… confined to the left atrial appendage has a lower degree of …

Transesophageal echocardiographic correlates of clinical risk of thromboembolism in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

…, Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation III … - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
… frequency of LAA thrombi, reduced atrial appendage velocity, … of the left atrium are more
important than its size in predicting … Similarly, the low frequency of severe mitral regurgitation

High levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein predict the progression of chronic rheumatic mitral stenosis

O Alyan, F Metin, F Kacmaz, O Ozdemir… - Journal of thrombosis …, 2009 - Springer
… of the aortic valve, the left atrial appendage was seen as an … None of them had severe Mitral
regurgitation. No differences … fibrinogen, and mean platelet volume were significantly higher …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with left atrial appendage filling defects on early-phase cardiac computed tomography in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a case …

XW Liu, X Tian, J Hu, GJ Ma, BL Gao… - Quantitative Imaging in …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… This study retrospectively investigated predictive factors of … 90% of AF thrombi are found in
the left atrial appendage (LAA) … implantation, moderate to severe mitral stenosis, severe liver …

Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast: a clinical and echocardiographic analysis

IW Black, AP Hopkins, LCL Lee, WF Walsh - Journal of the American …, 1991 - Elsevier
… One left atrial appendage thrombus and one left atrial cavity … in patients with mitral valve
disease, left atrial spontaneous … predictor of the combined and point of left atrial thrombus or …