Myocardial sleeves of pulmonary veins and atrial fibrillation: A postmortem histopathological study of 100 subjects

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 449, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-95

  Steiner, Ivo ^a   Hájková, Petra ^a   Kvasnička, Jiří ^a   Kholová, Ivana ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Myocardial sleeves of pulmonary veins; Pathogenesis; Pulmonary veins; Senile heart amyloid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SCAR FORMATION; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 33745610017     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-006-0197-2     Document Type: Article

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