Contrast-enhanced CMR is equally effective as TEE in the evaluation of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing pulmonary vein isolation procedure

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1021-1027

  Rathi, Vikas K ^a   Reddy, Sahadev T ^a   Anreddy, Sandeep ^a   Belden, William ^a   Yamrozik, June A ^a   Williams, Ronald B ^a   Doyle, Mark ^a   Thompson, Diane V ^a   Biederman, Robert W W ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Left atrial appendage thrombus; Pulmonary vein isolation; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE THROMBUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VEINS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84879506182     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.02.029     Document Type: Article

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