Epicardial atrial mapping can predict elimination of chronic atrial fibrillation after the box pulmonary vein isolation during mitral valve surgery

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 852-859

  Sueda, Taijiro ^a   Uchida, Naomichi ^a   Takahashi, Shinya ^a   Takasaki, Taiichi ^a   Kurosaki, Tatsuya ^a   Katayama, Keijiro ^a   Imai, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiological study; Isolation; Pulmonary vein; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858976715     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0970     Document Type: Article

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