Aortic Stiffness in Lone Atrial Fibrillation: A Novel Risk Factor for Arrhythmia Recurrence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Lau, Dennis H ^a   Middeldorp, Melissa E ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Ganesan, Anand N ^a   Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^a   Stiles, Martin K ^a   Leong, Darryl P ^a   Abed, Hany S ^a   Lim, Han S ^a   Wong, Christopher X ^a   Willoughby, Scott R ^a   Young, Glenn D ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^b   Abhayaratna, Walter P ^c   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPLANATION TONOMETER; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; AUGMENTATION PRESSURE; CATHETER ABLATION; CENTRAL PULSE PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE PRESSURE; RADIAL ARTERY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TONOMETRY;

AGED; AORTA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84884878803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076776     Document Type: Article

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