Usefulness of atrial fibrillation burden as a predictor for success of pulmonary vein isolation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1292-1301

  Berkowitsch, Alexander ^a   Greiss, Harald ^a   Vukajlovic, Dejan ^a   Kuniss, Malte ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^a   Zaltsberg, Sergej ^a   Kurzidim, Klaus ^a   Hamm, Christian ^a   Pitschner, Heinz F ^a  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Early recurrence; Pulmonary veins; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; SOTALOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOTHERAPY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PULMONARY VEIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645081251     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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