title: Echocardiographic study of left atrial thrombi in mitral stenosis.
abstract: Sixty-nine patients with predominant mitral stenosis were examined by echocardiographic means to detect the presence of left atrial thrombi. Forty-nine of these patients were in sinus rhythm and twenty in atrial fibrillation. Four percent of patients in the sinus rhythm group and 45% of those in the atrial fibrillation group had left atrial thrombi. The two risk factors identified for left atrial thrombi in mitral stenosis were atrial fibrillation and left atrial enlargement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conradie
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schall
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Marx
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000453:epidemiology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology