Patients originally diagnosed with idiopathic atrial fibrillation more often suffer from insidious coronary artery disease compared to healthy sinus rhythm controls

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1923-1929

  Weijs, Bob ^a   Pisters, Ron ^a   Haest, Rutger J ^b   Kragten, Johannes A ^c   Joosen, Ivo A ^a   Versteylen, Mathijs ^a   Timmermans, Carl C ^a   Pison, Laurent ^a   Blaauw, Yuri ^a   Hofstra, Leonard ^a   Nieuwlaat, Robby ^d   Wildberger, Joachim ^a   Crijns, Harry J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANNA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac computed tomographic angiography; Coronary artery disease; Idiopathic atrial fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DISOPYRAMIDE; FLECAINIDE; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; THYROID DISEASE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINOATRIAL NODE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870411085     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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