Impact of pulmonary vein isolation on atrial late potentials: Association with the recurrence of atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-507

  Masuda, Masaharu ^a,b   Inoue, Koichi ^a   Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Okamura, Atsunori ^a   Toyoshima, Yuko ^a   Doi, Atsushi ^a   Sotomi, Yohei ^a   Komuro, Issei ^b   Fujii, Kenshi ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Late potential; Pulmonary vein isolation; Recurrence; Signal averaged electrocardiogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875982243     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus326     Document Type: Article

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