Multislice computed tomography accurately quantifies left atrial size and function after the MAZE procedure

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Yamanaka, Kazuo ^a   Fujita, Masatoshi ^b   Doi, Kazuhiko ^a   Tsuneyoshi, Hiroshi ^a   Yamazato, Ario ^a   Ueno, Katsuya ^a   Zen, Eiwa ^a   Komeda, Masashi ^b  

^a Takeda Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrium; Fibrillation; Mitral valve; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART SIZE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAFETY; SINUS RHYTHM; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MOTION; ORGAN SIZE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33747176798     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.000968     Document Type: Article

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