Long-term single- and multiple-procedure outcome and predictors of success after catheter ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1391-1397

  Rostock, Thomas ^a   Salukhe, Tushar V ^a   Steven, Daniel ^a   Drewitz, Imke ^a   Hoffmann, Boris A ^a   Bock, Karsten ^a   Servatius, Helge ^a   Müllerleile, Kai ^a   Sultan, Arian ^a   Gosau, Nils ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a   Wegscheider, Karl ^b   Willems, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Biometrie and Epidemiology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Outcome; Predictors; Termination

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS ARREST; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS; DECISION TREE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DECISION TREES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855500388     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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