Usefulness of intracardiac Doppler assessment of left atrial function immediately post-pulmonary vein antrum isolation to predict short-term recurrence of atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 951-954

  Verma, Atul ^a   Marrouche, Nassir F ^a   Yamada, Hirotsugu ^a   Grimm, Richard A ^a   Cummings, Jennifer ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Kilicaslan, Fethi ^a   Bhargava, Mandeep ^a   Karim, Abdul Ahmad ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 5344278215     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.06.039     Document Type: Article

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