Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 964-970

  Dagres, Nikolaos ^a   Varounis, Christos ^a   Gaspar, Thomas ^b   Piorkowski, Christopher ^b   Eitel, Charlotte ^b   Iliodromitis, Efstathios K ^a   Lekakis, John P ^a   Flevari, Panayota ^a   Simeonidou, Eftihia ^a   Rallidis, Loukianos S ^a   Tsougos, Elias ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^b   Sommer, Philipp ^b   Anastasiou Nana, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; left ventricular dysfunction; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80255136180     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2011.07.009     Document Type: Review

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