Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at risk for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: Advanced echocardiographic evaluation of the left atrium combined with non-invasive P-wave analysis

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 425-434

  Girasis, Chrysafios ^a,b   Vassilikos, Vassilios ^a   Efthimiadis, Georgios K ^a   Papadopoulou, Stella Lida ^a,b   Dakos, Georgios ^a   Dalamaga, Emmanuela G ^a   Chouvarda, Ioanna ^a   Giannakoulas, Georgios ^a   Kamperidis, Vassilios ^a   Paraskevaidis, Stylianos ^a   Maglaveras, Nicos ^a   Karvounis, Haralambos I ^a   Parcharidis, Georgios E ^a   Styliadis, Ioannis H ^a  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Myocardial deformation; P wave wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; P WAVE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84876512559     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jes172     Document Type: Article

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