Does Left Atrial Mechanical Dysfunction Contribute to a Thrombogenic Atrial Myopathy?

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¹ Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Unit, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York. Electronic address: hok9010@med.cornell.edu.

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Hooman Kamel. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Dec.

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. 2019 Dec;12(12):2428-2430.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.02.008. Epub 2019 Apr 17.

¹ Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Unit, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York. Electronic address: hok9010@med.cornell.edu.

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Keywords: ESUS; atrial cardiomyopathy; atrial cardiopathy; atrial fibrillation; atrial myopathy; embolic stroke of undetermined source; stroke.

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Left Atrial Mechanical Function and Incident Ischemic Cerebrovascular Events Independent of AF: Insights From the MESA Study.
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