Dilatation of the pulmonary veins in atrial fibrillation: A transesophageal echocardiographic evaluation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1371-1378

  Knackstedt, Christian ^a   Visser, Laurent ^a   Plisiene, Jurgita ^b   Zarse, Markus ^a   Waldmann, Matthias ^a   Mischke, Karl ^a   Koch, Karl Christian ^a   Hoffmann, Rainer ^a   Franke, Andreas ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a   Schauerte, Patrick ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography; Left atrium; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0038516850     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00196.x     Document Type: Article

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