Correlation of left atrial diameter by echocardiography and left atrial volume by computed tomography

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-163

  Hof, Irene ^a   Arbab Zadeh, Armin ^b   Scherr, Daniel ^b,c   Chilukuri, Karuna ^b   Dalal, Darshan ^b   Abraham, Theodore ^b   Lima, Joao ^b   Calkins, Hugh ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrium; Computed tomography; Echocardiography; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59149095266     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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