The role of the right atrium in development of postoperative atrial fibrillation: A speckle tracking echocardiography study.
Ugur AksuKamuran KalkanOktay GulcuEmrah AksakalMustafa ÖztürkSelim TopcuPublished in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2019)
RA structure and functions are closely associated with AF development in the postoperative period, and screening of RA functions prior to surgery may be useful for preventing AF development.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- rheumatoid arthritis
- patients undergoing
- heart failure
- minimally invasive
- computed tomography
- catheter ablation
- left ventricular
- disease activity
- pulmonary hypertension
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- pulmonary artery
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- coronary artery
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery bypass
- ankylosing spondylitis
- interstitial lung disease
- vena cava
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- surgical site infection