Epicardial adipose tissue-based defragmentation approach to persistent atrial fibrillation: Its impact on complex fractionated electrograms and ablation outcome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1343-1351

  Nakahara, Shiro ^a   Hori, Yuichi ^a   Kobayashi, Sayuki ^a   Sakai, Yoshihiko ^a   Taguchi, Isao ^a   Takayanagi, Kan ^a   Nagashima, Koichi ^b   Sonoda, Kazumasa ^b   Kogawa, Rikitake ^b   Sasaki, Naoko ^b   Watanabe, Ichiro ^b   Okumura, Yasuo ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complex fractionated electrogram; Dominant frequency; EAT based left atrial ablation; Epicardial adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ELECTROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENERGY; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904961537     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.04.040     Document Type: Article

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