Nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. Risk of stroke and role of antithrombotic therapy.

JA Cairns, SJ Connolly - Circulation, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
… to nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. The recognition that nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation is …
trials of oral anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation and randomized trials of anticoagulant and …

Anticoagulants or antiplatelet therapy for nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation and flutter

JB Segal, R McNamara, MM Miller… - Cochrane Database …, 1996 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) carries a high risk of stroke and other thromboembolic
events. Appropriate use of drugs to prevent thromboembolism in patients with AF involves …

Prevention of stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

RG Hart, DG Sherman, JD Easton, JA Cairns - Neurology, 1998 - AAN Enterprises
… strokes are associated with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF). … , combining key words of atrial
fibrillation with stroke, embolism… describing the relation of nonvalvular AF to stroke. We focus …

Left atrial diameter in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: an echocardiographic study

HC Dittrich, LA Pearce, RW Asinger, R McBride… - American heart …, 1999 - Elsevier
… with nonvalvular AF probably result from embolism of thrombi originating in the left atrium
(LA). … We report a transthoracic echocardiographic study of 3465 patients with nonvalvular AF …

Echocardiographic predictors of nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. The Framingham Heart Study.

SM Vaziri, MG Larson, EJ Benjamin, D Levy - Circulation, 1994 - Am Heart Assoc
… with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation, the echocardiographic precursors of atrial fibrillation have
… the echocardiographic predictors of nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. Methods and Results …

Haemostatic and haemodynamic abnormalities associated with left atrial thrombosis in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation.

RM Heppell, KE Berkin, JM McLenachan, JA Davies - Heart, 1997 - heart.bmj.com
… line with other series of cases of nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. The initial use of a single
plane probe may have reduced the sensitivity for detection of left atrial thrombus; however, all …

Silent cerebral infarction in patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation

MD Ezekowitz, KE James, SM Nazarian, J Davenport… - Circulation, 1995 - Am Heart Assoc
… normal patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation. It also … Nonrheumatic Atrial Fibrillation
Investigators. Warfarin in the prevention of stroke associated with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation

Warfarin in the prevention of stroke associated with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation

MD Ezekowitz, SL Bridgers, KE James… - … England Journal of …, 1992 - Mass Medical Soc
… The risk among patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation … prevalence of nonrheumatic
atrial fibrillation increases with … among patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation, we planned …

Risk factors for stroke in patients with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation: a case-control study

AW Moulton, DE Singer, JS Haas - The American journal of medicine, 1991 - Elsevier
… with stroke and nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation, using case-… our case definition of nonrheumatic
atrial fibrillation and ischemic … with nonrheumatic atrial fibrillation without stroke (n = 131). …

Non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation as a risk factor for stroke.

M Britton, C Gustafsson - Stroke, 1985 - Am Heart Assoc
The association between non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF) and stroke has been studied
in 402 patients consecutively admitted to a stroke unit. Brain infarction patients with sinus …