Left atrial volume assessment in atrial fibrillation using multimodality imaging: a comparison of echocardiography, invasive three-dimensional CARTO and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1011-1018

  Rabbat, Mark G ^a   Wilber, David ^a   Thomas, Kevin ^b   Malick, Owais ^a   Bashir, Atif ^a   Agrawal, Anoop ^a   Biswas, Santanu ^c   Sanagala, Thriveni ^a   Syed, Mushabbar A ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Associates   (United States)

^c TriHealth   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography; Left atrium; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84929948069     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-015-0641-y     Document Type: Article

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