Five-year follow-up after catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation using the stepwise approach and prognostic factors for success

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 308-317

  Schreiber, Doreen ^a   Rostock, Thomas ^c   Fröhlich, Max ^a   Sultan, Arian ^a   Servatius, Helge ^a   Hoffmann, Boris A ^a   Lüker, Jakob ^a   Berner, Imke ^d   Schäffer, Benjamin ^a   Wegscheider, Karl ^b   Lezius, Susanne ^b   Willems, Stephan ^a   Steven, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Klinikum Links der Weser   (Germany)

Author keywords

arrhythmia (heart rhythm disorders); atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; long term outcome; stepwise approach; success

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932182197     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.114.001672     Document Type: Article

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