ArticleHeart and vessels2019
Left atrial function in obese and non-obese patients undergoing percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation.
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- Obesity-induced left atrial dysfunction across age groups and cardiovascular conditions: a comprehensive review of diagnostic advances and clinical implications.Annals of translational medicine · 2025Review
- The Management of Obesity Before Catheter Ablation of AF: The Missing Piece?Arrhythmia & electrophysiology review · 2025Review
- Left Atrial Volume Index Predicts Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence after Catheter Ablation Only in Obese Patients-Brief Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cardiorespiratory fitness, obesity and left atrial function in patients with atrial fibrillation.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2022Article
- Impaired Relaxation and Reduced Lusitropic Reserve in Atrial Myocardium in the Obese Patients.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- Investigation of arterial-cardiac-pulmonary interaction.Heart and vessels · 2019Article
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Abstract
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 of LA. The aim of the study was to evaluate LA function in obese and non-obese patients that were undergoing percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) before and 6 months after the procedure. 89 patients (F/M: 31/58; mean age: 55.8 ± 9.8 years) with paroxysmal or persistent symptomatic AF that had been qualified for percutaneous PVI were prospectively enrolled in the study. Body mass index (BMI) constituted as a discriminating factor for the study groups: obese group: BMI ≥ 30 kg/m
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