Effect of atrial fibrillation ablation on left atrial contractile function in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and a relatively well preserved atrial function

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-169

  Dagres, Nikolaos ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^b   Kottkamp, Hans ^c   Varounis, Christos ^a   Bode, Kerstin ^b   Arya, Arash ^b   Sommer, Philipp ^b   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a   Piorkowski, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Lung Center Hirslanden   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation ablation; Atrial function

Indexed keywords

A WAVE PEAK VELOCITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE EMPTYING VELOCITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349090686     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.64.2.2035339     Document Type: Article

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