Left atrial wall thickness rather than epicardial fat thickness is related to complex fractionated atrial electrogram

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Park, Junbeom ^a   Park, Chul Hwan ^a   Lee, Hye Jeong ^a   Wi, Jin ^a   Uhm, Jae Sun ^a   Pak, Hui Nam ^a   Lee, Moonhyoung ^a   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Joung, Boyoung ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complex fractionated atrial electrogram; Epicardial fat; Left atrial wall thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL FAT THICKNESS; LEFT ATRIAL WALL THICKNESS; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERICARDIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84900066567     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.255     Document Type: Article

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