Vagal modification can also help prevent late recurrence of atrial fibrillation after segmental pulmonary vein isolation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 632-638

  Yoshida, Naoki ^a   Yamada, Takumi ^b   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^c   Okada, Taro ^c   Ninomiya, Yuichi ^c   Toyama, Junji ^c   Yoshida, Yukihiko ^d   Tsuboi, Naoya ^e   Muto, Masahiro ^a   Inden, Yasuya ^a   Hirai, Makoto ^f   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate variability; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPHYLAXIS; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS REFLEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 65649139946     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0599     Document Type: Article

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