Comparison of left atrial dimensions in CT and echocardiography as predictors of long-term success after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 237-244

  Nedios, Sotirios ^a   Kosiuk, Jedrzej ^a   Koutalas, Emmanuel ^a   Kornej, Jelena ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Richter, Sergio ^a   Rolf, Sascha ^a   Husser, Daniela ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Bollmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Computer tomography; Echocardiography; Left atrial diameter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DIAMETER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84938977284     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-015-0010-8     Document Type: Article

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