Does location of epicardial adipose tissue correspond to endocardial high dominant frequency or complex fractionated atrial electrogram sites during atrial fibrillation?

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 676-683

  Nagashima, Koichi ^a   Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Nakai, Toshiko ^a   Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Kofune, Masayoshi ^a   Mano, Hiroaki ^a   Sonoda, Kazumasa ^a   Hiro, Takafumi ^a   Nikaido, Mizuki ^b   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complex fractionated atrial electrogram; Dominant frequency; Epicardial adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GELATINASE A; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84867166586     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.112.971200     Document Type: Article

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