Does periprocedural anticoagulation management of atrial fibrillation affect the prevalence of silent thromboembolic lesion detected by diffusion cerebral magnetic resonance imaging in patients undergoing radiofrequency atrial fibrillation ablation with open irrigated catheters? Results from a prospective multicenter study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 791-798

  Di Biase, Luigi ^a,b,c,d   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^e   Toso, Elisabetta ^e   Santangeli, Pasquale ^a,d   Mohanty, Prasant ^a   Rutledge, Neal ^f   Yan, Xue ^a   Mohanty, Sanghamitra ^a   Trivedi, Chintan ^a   Bai, Rong ^a   Price, Justin ^a   Horton, Rodney ^a   Gallinghouse, G Joseph ^a   Beheiry, Salwa ^a   Zagrodzky, Jason ^a   Canby, Robert ^a   Leclercq, Jean François ^j   Halimi, Franck ^g   Scaglione, Marco ^h   Cesarani, Federico ^h   Faletti, Riccardo ⁱ   Sanchez, Javier ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a,c,j,k,l   more..

^a TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f Austin Radiological Association   (United States)

^g CMC Parly II le Chesnay   (France)

^h Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia Hospital   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^j CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Periprocedural; Radiofrequency; Silent cerebral ischemia; Stroke; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETERIZATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION CEREBRAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPEN IRRIGATED CATHETER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RISK FACTOR; SILENT CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WARFARIN;

EID: 84898932277     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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