Left atrial strain for predicting recurrence in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation: a single-center two-dimensional speckle tracking retrospective study

• Published in: BMC cardiovascular disorders Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Li, Yuanzhi, Li, Yidan, Sun, Lanlan, Ye, Xiaoguang, Cai, Qizhe, Zhu, Weiwei, Guo, Dichen, Ding, Xueyan, Wang, Jiangtao, Lv, Xiuzhang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BioMed Central Ltd 05.11.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac arrhythmia; Care and treatment; Catheter ablation; Catheters; Contractility; Diagnosis; Diseases; Echocardiography; Fibrillation; Heart; Hospitals; Methods; Patients; Prognosis; Radiofrequency ablation; Recurrence; Relapse; Reproducibility; Software; Speckle tracking cardiography; Veins & arteries; China; Beijing China; United States > US

Background Although catheter ablation (CA) is an effective treatment for non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF), a good many of patients still have a recurrence following post-operation. Prediction of AF recurrence by evaluating left atrial (LA) phase function with speckle tracking echocardiography (...