Efficacy of catheter ablation in nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation patients with severe enlarged left atrium and its impact on left atrial structural remodeling

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1224-1231

  Pump, Agnes ^a,b   Di Biase, Luigi ^a,c,d,e   Price, Justin ^a   Mohanty, Prasant ^a   Bai, Rong ^a,f   Santangeli, Pasquale ^a,d   Mohanty, Sanghamitra ^a   Trivedi, Chintan ^a   Yan, Rachel ^a   Horton, Rodney ^a   Sanchez, Javier E ^a   Zagrodzky, Jason ^a   Bailey, Shane ^a   Gallinghouse, G Joseph ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a,d  

^a TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; left atrial enlargement; long lasting persistent atrial fibrillation; pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RISK FACTOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; LEFT ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT; LONG-LASTING PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIOMEGALY; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84886801743     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jce.12253     Document Type: Article

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