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Useful clinical features for the selection of ideal patients with strial fibril...
Mehta,Niraj; Távora,Maria Zildany Pinheiro; Takeschita,Noriaki; Figueiredo,Edilberto; Lourenço,Ricardo M.; Germiniani,Hélio; Précoma,DaltonOBJECTIVE: To identify useful clinical characteristics for selecting patients eligible for mapping and ablation of atrial fibrillation. METHODS: We studied 9 patients with atrial fibrillation, without structural heart disease, associated with: 1) antiarrhythmic drugs, 2) symptoms of low cardiac output, and 3) intention to treat. Seven patients had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and 2 had recurrent atrial fibril...
Predictive value of clinical and electrophysiological variables in patients wit...
Silva,Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da; Távora,Maria Zildany Pinheiro; Gondim,Fernando Antônio Aquino; Metha,Niraj; Hara,Vanderlei MitsuoOBJECTIVE: Risk stratification of patients with nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) and chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC). METHODS: Seventy eight patients with CCC and NSVT were consecutively and prospectively studied. All patients underwent to 24-hour Holter monitoring, radioisotopic ventriculography, left ventricular angiography, and electrophysiologic study. With programmed ventricular stimulatio...