Mechanical and substrate abnormalities of the left atrium assessed by 3-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography and electroanatomic mapping system in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 490-497

  Watanabe, Yoshikazu ^a   Nakano, Yukiko ^a   Hidaka, Takayuki ^a   Oda, Noboru ^a   Kajihara, Kenta ^a   Tokuyama, Takehito ^a   Uchimura, Yuko ^a   Sairaku, Akinori ^a   Motoda, Chikaaki ^a   Fujiwara, Mai ^a   Kawazoe, Hiroshi ^a   Matsumura, Hiroya ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Conductiondelay; Dyssynchrony; Electroanatomic mapping; Left atrium; Remodeling; Speckle trackingechocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS NODE RECOVERY TIME; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84924034730     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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