Real-time integration of MDCT-derived coronary anatomy and epicardial fat: Impact on epicardial electroanatomic mapping and ablation for ventricular arrhythmias

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-52

  Van Huls Van Taxis, Carine F ^a   Wijnmaalen, Adrianus P ^a   Piers, Sebastiaan R ^a   Van Der Geest, Rob J ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a   Zeppenfeld, Katja ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

epicardial ablation; epicardial fat; MDCT integration; ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPICARDIAL ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872278853     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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