Echocardiographic predictors of progression to persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (E6P Study)

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 709-717

  Yoon, Yeonyee E ^a   Oh, Il Young ^a   Kim, Sung Ai ^b   Park, Kyoung Ha ^b   Kim, Seong Hwan ^c   Park, Jae Hyeong ^d   Kim, Jeong Eun ^e   Lee, Seung Pyo ^e   Kim, Hyung Kwan ^e   Kim, Yong Jin ^e   Sohn, Dae Won ^e   Cho, Goo Yeong ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University Medical Center   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrium; Strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DIAMETER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84930083187     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2015.01.017     Document Type: Article

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