The effect of fat pad modification during ablation of atrial fibrillation: Late gadolinium enhancement MRI analysis

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 467-476

  Higuchi, Koji ^a   Akkaya, Mehmet ^a   Koopmann, Matthias ^a   Blauer, Joshua J E ^a   Burgon, Nathan S ^a   Damal, Kavitha ^a   Ranjan, Ravi ^a   Kholmovski, Eugene ^a   MacLeod, Rob S ^a   Marrouche, Nassir F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; fat pad; ganglionated plexi; LGE MRI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EPICARDIAL FAT PAD; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84875811554     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pace.12084     Document Type: Article

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