Lange, Philipp Sebastian ; Wenning, Christian Ernst Johannes ; Avramovic, Nemanja ; Leitz, Patrick R. ; Larbig, Robert ; Frommeyer, Gerrit ; Schäfers, Michael ; Eckardt, Lars: Cardiac Sympathetic Activity and Rhythm Control Following Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation—A Prospective 123I-mIBG-SPECT/CT [...]
Inhalt
- Methods
- Patients
- Radionuclide (123I-mIBG) Imaging of Cardiac Sympathetic Innervation
- Analysis
- Pulmonary Vein Isolation
- Statistics
- Results
- Cardiac Sympathetic Activity before and after PVI
- Analysis of Global Sympathetic Cardiac Innervation
- Semiquantitative Analysis of Regional Sympathetic Cardiac Innervation
- Quantitative Analysis of Regional Sympathetic Cardiac Innervation
- Innervation Defects and AF Relapses
- Sympathetic Innervation in Patients Treated with Antiarrhythmic Drugs Only
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- References