Anatomical characteristics of pulmonary veins for the prediction of postoperative recurrence after radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wei, Wei ^a,b   Ge, Jun Bo ^b   Zou, Yu ^a,b   Lin, Li ^a   Cai, Ying ^a   Liu, Xue Bo ^a   Zhu, Wen Qing ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENCE RISK; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VEIN DIAMETER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHINA; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHINA; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84899120149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093817     Document Type: Article

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