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SUBMITTER: Ciuffo L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6559378 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ciuffo Luisa L Nguyen Hieu H Marques Mateus Diniz MD Aronis Konstantinos N KN Sivasambu Bhradeev B de Vasconcelos Henrique D HD Tao Susumu S Spragg David D DD Marine Joseph E JE Berger Ronald D RD Lima Joao A C JAC Calkins Hugh H Ashikaga Hiroshi H
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 20190610 6
Background 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 attenuation, predicts recurrence after AF ablation independent of the quantity of the LA periatrial fat tissue. Methods We included 143 consecutive patients with drug-refractory AF referred for the first catheter ablation ...[more]