Predictors of atrial fibrillation recurrence after atrial fibrillation ablation with cryoballoon

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 294-303

  Evranos, Banu ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Oto, Ali ^a   Okutucu, Sercan ^a   Karakulak, Uǧur ^a   Şahiner, Levent ^a   Kaya, Bariş ^a   Kabakçi, Giray ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryoballoon ablation; Early atrial fibrillation recurrence; Intraleft AEMD

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN T;

ABLATION DEVICE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER; CIRCULAR MAPPING CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DECAPOLAR CATHETER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPOLAR CATHETER; NERVE STIMULATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885212818     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: 1898018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.2013.0075     Document Type: Article

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