Internal cardioversion of chronic atrial fibrillation during percutaneous mitral commissurotomy: Insight into reversal of chronic stretch-induced atrial remodeling

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2746-2752

  Fan, Katherine ^a   Lee, Kathy L ^b   Chow, Wing Hing ^a   Chau, Elaine ^a   Lau, Chu Pak ^b  

^a GRANTHAM HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardioversion; Mitral valve; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BIOMECHANICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037062667     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000018441.64861.DE     Document Type: Article

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