Stunning of the left atrium after conversion of atrial fibrillation: Predictor for maintenance of sinus rhythm?

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 402-407

  Ökçün, Bariş ^a   Yiǧit, Zerrin ^a   Arat, Alev ^a   Baran, Türker ^b   Küçükoǧlu, M Serdar ^a,c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Echocardiography; Mitral inflow A wave velocity

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18844384166     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.03167.x     Document Type: Article

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