Pre-existent left atrial scarring in patients undergoing pulmonary vein antrum isolation: An independent predictor of procedural failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 285-292

  Verma, Atul ^a   Wazni, Oussama M ^a   Marrouche, Nassir F ^a   Martin, David O ^a   Kilicaslan, Fethi ^a   Minor, Stephen ^a   Schweikert, Robert A ^a   Saliba, Walid ^a   Cummings, Jennifer ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Bhargava, Mandeep ^a   Belden, William A ^a   Abdul Karim, Ahmad ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 19944425972     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.10.035     Document Type: Article

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