Location of epicardial adipose tissue affects the efficacy of a combined dominant frequency and complex fractionated atrial electrogram ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 257-265

  Nakatani, Yosuke ^a   Kumagai, Koji ^a   Minami, Kentaro ^a   Nakano, Masahiro ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^b   Oshima, Shigeru ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Dominantfrequency

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM ABLATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOMINANT FREQUENCY ABLATION; EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84921053724     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.10.020     Document Type: Article

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