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Cardiac risk factors and prevention
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Left atrial cross-sectional area is a novel measure of atrial shape associated with cardioembolic strokes

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  • Timothy C Tan Cardiology, Blacktown Hospital, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mark Handschumacher Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Octavio Pontes-Neto University of São Paulo Department of Neurosciences and Behaviour Sciences, Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil Neurology and Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yong-Hyun Park Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Cardiovascular Center, Pusan National University, Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cashel O’Brien Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Victoria Piro Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Unidad de Imagen Cardiaca, Hospital Universitario San Roque, Las Palmas, España PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gyeong-Moon Kim Neurology and Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Cardiovascular Center, Pusan National University, Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Republic of Korea PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Johanna Helenius Neurology and Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Burlington, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Xin Zeng Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jose Luiz Padilha da Silva Estatística, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karen Furie Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hakan Ay Neurology and Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Judy Hung Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Judy Hung, Echocardiography, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; jhung{at}mgh.harvard.edu
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Tan TC, Nunes MCP, Handschumacher M, et al
Left atrial cross-sectional area is a novel measure of atrial shape associated with cardioembolic strokes
Heart 2020;106:1176-1182.

Publication history

  • Received September 16, 2019
  • Revised December 23, 2019
  • Accepted January 2, 2020
  • First published January 24, 2020.
Online issue publication 
January 18, 2021

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