The Effect of Fat Pad Modification during Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Late Gadolinium Enhancement MRI Analysis.

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can visualize locations of both the ablation scar on the left atrium (LA) after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation and epicardial fat pads (FPs) containing ganglionated plexi (GP). Methods We investigated 60 patients who underwent pulmonary vein antrum (PVA...

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Published in:Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 467 - 477
Main Authors: Higuchi, Koji, Akkaya, Mehmet, Koopmann, Matthias, Blauer, Joshua J.E., Burgon, Nathan S., Damal, Kavitha, Ranjan, Ravi, Kholmovski, Eugene, Macleod, Rob S., Marrouche, Nassir F.
Format: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2013
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