Clinical characteristics of patients with persistent atrial fibrillation successfully treated by left atrial ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 465-471

  Takahashi, Yoshihide ^a,b   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Kuwahara, Taishi ^a   Fujino, Tadashi ^a   Okubo, Kenji ^a   Kusa, Shigeki ^a   Fujii, Akira ^a   Yagishita, Atsuhiko ^b   Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Nozato, Toshihiro ^a   Hikita, Hiroyuki ^a   Hirao, Kenzo ^b   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^b  

^a YOKOSUKA KYOSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrium; Fibrillation; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAM BASED ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LINEAR ABLATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049519328     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.949297     Document Type: Article

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