Pulmonary vein anatomy addressed by computed tomography and relation to success of second-generation cryoballoon ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
Bart A MulderMeelad I H Al-JazairiBauke K O ArendsNiels BaxLeonard A DijkshoornUzaifa SheikhEng S TanAns C P WiesfeldRobert G TielemanRozemarijn VliegenthartMichiel RienstraIsabelle C van GelderYuri BlaauwPublished in: Clinical cardiology (2019)
No specific characteristics of PV dimensions nor morphology were associated with AF recurrence after cryoballoon ablation in patients with paroxysmal AF.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- catheter ablation
- left atrial
- computed tomography
- left atrial appendage
- oral anticoagulants
- direct oral anticoagulants
- heart failure
- positron emission tomography
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- radiofrequency ablation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image quality
- dual energy
- coronary artery disease
- left ventricular
- venous thromboembolism
- pet ct