P-wave abnormality predicts recurrence of atrial fibrillation after electrical cardioversion: A prospective study

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-62

  Gonna, Hanney ^a   Gallagher, Mark Michael ^a   Guo, Xiao Hua ^a   Yap, Yee Guan ^b   Hnatkova, Katerina ^a   Camm, A John ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Prince Court Medical Centre ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; electrical cardioversion; electrical dispersion; P wave; recurrence of atrial fibrillation; surface ECG

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIGITALIS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; P WAVE; P WAVE DISPERSION; P WAVE DURATION; P WAVE PROLONGATION; PR INTERVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893703264     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anec.12087     Document Type: Article

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