The biatrial substrate properties in different types of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Authors : Huang SY; Lin YJ; Tsao HM; Chang SL; Lo LW; Hu HF; Suenari K; Lin YK; Huang JH; Chen IC; Ko WC; Ong ET;

Affiliations : Dr. Shih-Ann Chen, Division of Cardiology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, 201 Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan epsachen@ms41.hinet.net

Journal : Heart Rhythm   (2011)

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Vitamin D status is not related to development of atrial fibrillation in the community

Authors : Rienstra M; Cheng S; Larson MG; McCabe EL; Booth SL; Jacques PF; Lubitz SA; Yin X; Levy D; Magnani JW; Ellinor PT; Benjamin EJ;

Affiliations : Thomas J. Wang, MD, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114 tjwang@partners.org

Journal : American Heart Journal   (2011)

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Epicardial ablation of rotors suppresses inducibility of acetylcholine-induced atrial fibrillation in left pulmonary vein-left atrium preparations in a beagle heart failure model.

Authors : Chou CC; Chang PC; Wen MS; Lee HL; Chen TC; Yeh SJ;

Affiliations : correspondence: Dr. Chung-Chuan Chou, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 2nd Section of Cardiology, 199 North Tung-Hwa Road, Taipei 10591, Taiwan (Email: 2867@adm.cgmh.org.tw).

Journal : Journal of the American College of Cardiology   (2011)

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A new risk scheme to predict warfarin-associated hemorrhage: The ATRIA (Anticoagulation and Risk Factors in Atrial Fibrillation) Study.

Authors : Fang MC; Go AS; Chang Y; Borowsky LH; Pomernacki NK; Udaltsova N;

Affiliations : correspondence: Dr. Margaret C. Fang, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, California 94143 (Email: mfang@medicine.ucsf.edu).

Journal : Journal of the American College of Cardiology   (2011)

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Vitamin D status is not related to development of atrial fibrillation in the community

Authors : Rienstra M; Cheng S; Larson MG; McCabe EL; Booth SL; Jacques PF; Lubitz SA; Yin X; Levy D; Magnani JW; Ellinor PT; Benjamin EJ;

Affiliations : Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Reprint requests: Thomas J. Wang, MD, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114

Journal : American Heart Journal   (2011)

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Platelet activation and induction of tissue factor in acute and chronic atrial fibrillation: Involvement of mononuclear cell-platelet interaction

Authors : Hayashi M; Takeshita K; Inden Y; Ishii H; Cheng XW; Yamamoto K;

Affiliations : Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan Corresponding authors at: Department of Cardiology Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho Nagoya, Aichi 466–8550, Japan. Tel.: +81 52 744 2147; fax: +81 52 744 2138

Journal : Thrombosis Research   (2011)

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Epicardial Ablation of Rotors Suppresses Inducibility of Acetylcholine-Induced Atrial Fibrillation in Left Pulmonary Vein–Left Atrium Preparations in a Beagle Heart Failure Model

Authors : Chou CC; Chang PC; Wen MS; Lee HL; Chen TC; Yeh SJ;

Affiliations : * Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Chung-Chuan Chou, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 2nd Section of Cardiology, 199 North Tung-Hwa Road, Taipei 10591, Taiwan (Email: 2867@adm.cgmh.org.tw).

Journal : Journal of American College of Cardiology   (2011)

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A new risk scheme to predict warfarin-associated hemorrhage: The ATRIA (Anticoagulation and Risk Factors in Atrial Fibrillation) Study.

Authors : Fang MC; Go AS; Chang Y; Borowsky LH; Pomernacki NK; Udaltsova N;

Affiliations : * Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Margaret C. Fang, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, California 94143 (Email: mfang@medicine.ucsf.edu).

Journal : Journal of American College of Cardiology   (2011)

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The distance between the vein and lesions predicts the requirement of carina ablation in circumferential pulmonary vein isolation

Authors : Lin YJ; Tsao HM; Chang SL; Lo LW; Tuan TC; Hu YF; Tsai WC; Chang CJ; Tai CT; Suenari K; Huang SY; Wu TJ;

Affiliations : Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Corresponding author. Tel: +886 2 2875 7156; fax: +886 2 2873 5656, Email: epsachen@ms41.hinet.net

Journal : EP Europace   (2011 )

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Associations among the CHADS2 score, atrial substrate properties, and outcome of catheter ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Authors : Chao TF; Cheng CC; Lin WS; Tsao HM; Lin YJ; Chang SL; Lo LW; Hu YF; Tuan TC; Suenari K; Li CH; Liu SH; Hartono B; Wu TJ;

Affiliations : Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Shih-Ann Chen and Dr. Tsu-Juey Wu, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Journal : Heart Rhythm   (2011)

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The biatrial substrate properties in different types of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Authors : Huang SY; Lin YJ; Tsao HM; Chang SL; Lo LW; Hu HF; Suenari K; Lin YK; Huang JH; Chen IC; Ko WC; Ong ET;

Affiliations : Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Institute, National Yang-Ming University and Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Shih-Ann Chen, Division of Cardiology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, 201 Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Journal : Heart Rhythm   (2011)

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Impact of circulating monocyte CD36 level on atrial fibrillation and subsequent catheter ablation

Authors : Hu YF; Yeh HI; Tsao HM; Tai CT; Lin YJ; Chang SL; Lo LW; Tuan TC; Tzeng CH; Huang SH; Lin YK;

Affiliations : Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Institute, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Shih-Ann Chen, Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Journal : Heart Rhythm   (2011)

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Associations between the atrial electromechanical interval, atrial remodelling and outcome of catheter ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Authors :

Affiliations : "Correspondence to Dr Shih-Ann Chen, Division of Cardiology, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei 201 Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan; epsachen@ms41.hinet.net "

Journal : Original article   (2010 )

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Successful catheter ablation reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in atrial fibrillation patients with CHA2DS2-VASc risk score of 1 and higher

Authors :

Affiliations : Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Healthcare Center, Taipei Verteran General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 5Fl. No. 17, Hsu Chow Road, Taipei, Taiwan Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, No 111, Section 3, Hsin-Lung Road, Wenshan Dist., Taipei, Taiwan

Journal : N/A   (2012)

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Prognostic Utility of Novel Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Stress The Framingham Heart Study

Authors : Kai C. Wollert, MD*; Martin G. Larson, ScD; Erin Coglianese, MD; Elizabeth L. McCabe, MS; Susan Cheng, MD; Jennifer E. Ho, MD; Michael G. Fradley, MD; Anahita Ghorbani, MD, MPH; Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD; Tibor Kempf, MD; Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM; Daniel Levy, MD; Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD*;

Affiliations : From the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA (T.J.W., M.G.L., S.C., J.E.H., E.J.B., D.L., R.S.V.); Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (T.J.W., E.C., E.L.M., J.E.H., M.G.F., A.G., J.L.J.); Division of Molecular and Translational Cardiology, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (K.C.W., T.K.); Department of Mathematics and Statistics (M.G.L.), Division of Cardiology (E.J.B., D.L., R.S.V.), and Division of Preventive Medicine (V.X., R.S.V.), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Division of Cardiology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL (E.C.); Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (S.C.); and Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (D.L.).

Journal : N/A   (2012)

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