Posterior Left Atrial Adipose Tissue Attenuation Assessed by Computed Tomography and Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 Apr;14(4):e009135. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009135. Epub 2021 Mar 15.

¹ Department of Cardiology (M.E.M., J.M.S., J.H.K., A.R.v.R., V.D., J.J.B.), Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
² MTA-SE Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group, Heart & Vascular Center (J.S., L.S., S.H., N.S., L.G., B.M., P.M.-H.), Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
³ Department of Biomedical Data Sciences (E.W.S.), Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
⁴ Division of Image Processing (R.J.v.d.G.), Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Centre (P.M.-H.), Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; atrial fibrillation recurrence; catheter ablation; computed tomography; epicardial fat.