Asymptomatic recurrences of atrial fibrillation after pulmonary vein isolation

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 495-498

  Neumann, Thomas ^a,b   Erdogan, Ali ^a   Dill, Thorsten ^a   Greiss, Harald ^a   Berkowitsch, Alexander ^a   Sperzel, Johannes ^a   Kuniss, Malte ^a   Kurzidim, Klaus ^a   Hamm, Christian W ^a   Pitschner, Heinz Friedrich ^a  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Event recording

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECORDING; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745588279     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul056     Document Type: Article

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