Open AccessAssociation of apelin and AF in patients with implanted loop recorders undergoing catheter ablation
Author(s) -
Tomáš Uher,
Allan Böhm,
L. Urban,
Ľubomíra Tóthová,
Ljuba Bacharová,
Peter Musil,
Ján Kyselovič,
Peter Michalek,
Marianna Vachalcová,
Peter Olejník,
Róbert Hatala
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bratislavské lekárske listy/bratislava medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1336-0345
pISSN - 0006-9248
DOI - 10.4149/bll_2020_079
Subject(s) - apelin , ablation , catheter ablation , medicine , cardiology , catheter , loop (graph theory) , surgery , mathematics , receptor , combinatorics
Previous studies showed an association between apelin and atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in patients with paroxysmal AF on plasmatic apelin concentrations.