Rikitake Kogawa

Epicardial adipose tissue-based defragmentation approach to persistent atrial fibrillation: Its impact on complex fractionated electrograms and ablation outcome

Shiro Nakahara, Yuichi Hori, Sayuki Kobayashi et al. · Heart Rhythm · 2014 · 52 citations

Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology +11

Relation Between Left Atrial Wall Thickness in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Intracardiac Electrogram Characteristics and ATP‐Provoked Dormant Pulmonary Vein Conduction

Keiko Takahashi, Yasuo Okumura, Ichiro Watanabe et al. · Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology · 2015 · 50 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology +16

Increased levels of inflammatory and extracellular matrix turnover biomarkers persist despite reverse atrial structural remodeling during the first year after atrial fibrillation ablation

Naoko Sasaki, Yasuo Okumura, Ichiro Watanabe et al. · Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology · 2014 · 42 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Cardiology, Molecular Biology +16

Anatomical proximity between ganglionated plexi and epicardial adipose tissue in the left atrium: implication for 3D reconstructed epicardial adipose tissue-based ablation

Keiko Takahashi, Yasuo Okumura, Ichiro Watanabe et al. · Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology · 2016 · 38 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +17

Wall thickness of the pulmonary vein-left atrial junction rather than electrical information as the major determinant of dormant conduction after contact force-guided pulmonary vein isolation

Kazuki Iso, Yasuo Okumura, Ichiro Watanabe et al. · Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology · 2016 · 36 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +17