Left atrial function assessed by doppler echocardiography rather than left atrial volume predicts recurrence in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 235-240

  Yoon, Ji Hyun ^a   Moon, Jeonggeun ^b   Chung, Hye Moon ^a   Choi, Eui Young ^a   Kim, Jong Youn ^a   Min, Pil Ki ^a   Yoon, Young Won ^a   Lee, Byoung Kwon ^a   Hong, Bum Kee ^a   Kwon, Hyuck Moon ^a   Rim, Se Joong ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Gachon University Gil Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876669721     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22105     Document Type: Article

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