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Volume 136, Issue 3 , Pages 346-348 , 21 August 2009

Transthoracic echocardiography during sinus rhythm identifies elderly patients with nonvalvular paroxysmal atrial fibrillation at high risk of cerebral infarction

Received 10 January 2008 ,Accepted 26 April 2008.

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