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A prognostic model for predicting the disappearance of left atrial thrombi among candidates for percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy

Songkwan Silaruks, MD^*,*, Bandit Thinkhamrop, PhD, Wirote Tantikosum, MD^*, Chaiyasith Wongvipaporn, MD^*, Pyatat Tatsanavivat, MD^* and Virat Klungboonkrong, MD, FACC^*

^* Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Department of Biostatistics and Demography, Faculty of Public Health, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, ThailandThis paper was presented as an abstract form at the 50th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida on March 18–21, 2001.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curves for prediction model derived from (a) the training set (solid line; area under the ROC curve = 0.92) and (b) the validating set (dotted line; area under the ROC curve = 0.94). Test for equivalence of the two area under the ROC curves, p = 0.462.

View larger version (48K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Nomogram for predicting the disappearance of LAT.