Left atrial function in obese and non-obese patients undergoing percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation

Obesity constitutes a risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF) and modifies the efficacy of invasive AF treatment. Left atrial (LA) global longitudinal strain (GLS), which is measured using speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE), is one of the new methods that are helpful in evaluating the function...

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Autores principales: Cichoń, Małgorzata, Wieczorek, Joanna, Wybraniec, Maciej, Woźniak-Skowerska, Iwona, Hoffmann, Andrzej, Nowak, Seweryn, Szydło, Krzysztof, Wnuk-Wojnar, Anna, Mizia-Stec, Katarzyna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00380-018-1243-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00380-018-1243-0

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