Interatrial septal thickness is associated with the extent of left atrial complex fractionated atrial electrograms and acute procedural outcome in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1700-1707

  Park, Yae Min ^a   Park, Hwan Cheol ^a   Ban, Ji Eun ^a   Choi, Jong Il ^a   Lim, Hong Euy ^a   Park, Sang Weon ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^a  

^a College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complex fractionated atrial electrograms; Interatrial septal thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERATRIAL SEPTAL THICKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURFACE AREA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM REMODELING; HEART FUNCTION TEST; INTERATRIAL SEPTUM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ATRIAL REMODELING; ATRIAL SEPTUM; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84950315735     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu403     Document Type: Article

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