Results from a single-blind, randomized study comparing the impact of different ablation approaches on long-term procedure outcome in coexistent atrial fibrillation and flutter (approval)

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1853-1860

  Mohanty, Sanghamitra ^a,b   Mohanty, Prasant ^a   Di Biase, Luigi ^a,c,d,k   Bai, Rong ^a,e   Santangeli, Pasquale ^a,d   Casella, Michela ^f   Russo, Antonio Dello ^g   Tondo, Claudio ^g   Themistoclakis, Sakis ^h   Raviele, Antonio ^h   Rossillo, Antonio ^h   Corrado, Andrea ^h   Pelargonio, Gemma ⁱ   Forleo, Giovanni ^j   Natale, Andrea ^a,c  

^a TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^f HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g RCCS Monzino Hospital   (Italy)

^h OSPEDALE DELL'ANGELO   (Italy)

ⁱ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^k ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

ablation techniques; atrial fibrillation; atrial flutter; pulmonary veins; quality of life; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; PULMONARY VEINS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877303385     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.001855     Document Type: Article

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