Association of left atrial epicardial adipose tissue with electrogram bipolar voltage and fractionation: Electrophysiologic substrates for atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2333-2339

  Zghaib, Tarek ^a   Ipek, Esra Gucuk ^a   Zahid, Sohail ^b   Balouch, Muhammad Adnan ^a   Misra, Satish ^a   Ashikaga, Hiroshi ^a,b   Berger, Ronald D ^a,b   Marine, Joseph E ^a   Spragg, David D ^a   Zimmerman, Stefan L ^a   Zipunnikov, Vadim ^c   Trayanova, Natalia ^b   Calkins, Hugh ^a   Nazarian, Saman ^a,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Bipolar voltage; Computerized tomography; Epicardial adipose tissue; Fibrosis; Signal fractionation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL FAT; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; CARDIAC MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIUM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85016425356     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2016.08.030     Document Type: Article

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