Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 1374-1382 , September 2011

Early temporal and spatial regularization of persistent atrial fibrillation predicts termination and arrhythmia-free outcome

  • Andrei Forclaz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, FACC, FHRS,

      Affiliations

    • University of California and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Sanjiv M. Narayan, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., University of California, San Diego, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, California 92161
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  • Daniel Scherr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Nick Linton, MEng, MRCP

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    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Amir S. Jadidi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Isabelle Nault, MD, FRCPC

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    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Lena Rivard, MD

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    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Shinsuke Miyazaki, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Laurent Uldry, MEng

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    • Applied Signal Processing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Matthew Wright, MBBS, PhD

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    • NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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  • Ashok J. Shah, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Xingpeng Liu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Olivier Xhaet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Nicolas Derval, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Sébastien Knecht, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Frédéric Sacher, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Pierre Jaïs, MD

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    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Mélèze Hocini, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France
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  • Michel Haïssaguerre, MD

      Affiliations

    • Hôpital de Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France

Received 21 January 2011 ,Accepted 9 May 2011.

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 This work was supported by grants from Fondation Vaudoise de Cardiologie (Switzerland) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (to AF) and from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Institutes of Health (R01 HL83359), and Biosense-Webster (to SMN) Dr. Narayan holds equity in Topera Inc.; Topera does not fund any research including that presented here.

PII: S1547-5271(11)00557-1

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.05.008

Heart Rhythm
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 1374-1382 , September 2011

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