PERIATRIAL FAT QUALITY PREDICTS ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION OUTCOME

Luisa Ciuffo,Hieu Nguyen,Mateus D. Marques,Konstantinos N. Aronis,Henrique D. Vasconcellos,Bhradeev Sivasambu,Susumu Tao,David D. Spragg,Joseph E. Marine,Ronald D. Berger,João A.C. Lima,Hugh Calkins,Hiroshi Ashikaga

PERIATRIAL FAT QUALITY PREDICTS ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION OUTCOME

2019

Luisa Ciuffo
Hieu Nguyen
Mateus D. Marques
Konstantinos N. Aronis
Henrique D. Vasconcellos
Bhradeev Sivasambu
Susumu Tao
David D. Spragg
Joseph E. Marine
Ronald D. Berger
João A.C. Lima
Hugh Calkins
Hiroshi Ashikaga

Previous studies showed that the quantity of the left atrial (LA) periatrial fat tissue predicts recurrence after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). We hypothesized that the quality of the LA periatrial fat tissue, measured by the mean computed tomography (CT) attenuation, predicts

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Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Ablation
Cardiology
Atrial fibrillation
Medicine

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