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Europace 2008 10(Supplement 3):iii22-iii27; doi:10.1093/europace/eun223
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Europace issue: Spotlight Issue: Cardiac Imaging in EP and CRT [View the issue table of contents]

IMAGING IN CATHETER ABLATION FOR AF

Evaluating the left atrium by magnetic resonance imaging

Thomas H. Hauser1,2,*, Dana C. Peters1,2, John V. Wylie1,2 and Warren J. Manning1,2,3

1 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 3 Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

The emergence of catheter based ablation therapy for the prevention of recurrent atrial fibrillation has increased interest in the anatomy of the left atrium and pulmonary veins. In this article, we review the magnetic resonance imaging method of imaging the left atrium and the pulmonary veins, normal and variant anatomy, and the utility of imaging before and after atrial fibrillation ablation.

Key Words: Left atrium, Magnetic resonance imaging, Pulmonary veins, Atrial fibrillation

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: thauser{at}bidmc.harvard.edu


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