Left atrial appendage morphology and thromboembolic risk after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2239-2246

  Nedios, Sotirios ^a   Kornej, Jelena ^a   Koutalas, Emmanuel ^a   Bertagnolli, Livio ^a   Kosiuk, Jedrzej ^a   Rolf, Sascha ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Husser, Daniela ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Bollmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; CHA2DS2 VASc; Left atrial appendage; Stroke transient ischemic attack prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; IOPROMIDE;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUE; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84919346098     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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