Prevalence and Severity of Left Atrial Edema Detected by Electron Beam Tomography Early After Pulmonary Vein Ablation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1436-1442

  Okada, Taro ^a   Yamada, Takumi ^b   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^a   Yoshida, Naoki ^a   Ninomiya, Yuuichi ^a   Shimizu, Takeshi ^a   Toyama, Junji ^a   Yoshida, Yukihiko ^c   Ito, Teruo ^c   Tsuboi, Naoya ^d   Kondo, Takahisa ^e   Inden, Yasuya ^e   Hirai, Makoto ^e   Murohara, Toyoaki ^e  

^a Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EDEMA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; EDEMA, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947599269     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.10.076     Document Type: Article

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