Left atrial remodeling: Assessment of size and shape to detect vulnerability to atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Cozma, Dragos ^a,b   Popescu, Bogdan A ^a   Lighezan, Dan ^a   Lucian, Petrescu ^a   Mornos, Cristian ^a   Ginghina, Carmen ^b   Dragulescu, Stefan Iosif ^a  

^a Timisoara Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine   (Romania)

^b Prof Dr C C Iliescu Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases   (Romania)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial vulnerability; Decremental conduction; Left atrial surface

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846279015     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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