Modified maze procedure for patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing simultaneous open heart surgery

Circulation

Volumn 92, Issue 9 SUPPL., 1995, Pages

  Kosakai, Yoshio ^a   Kawaguchi, Akira T ^a   Isobe, Fumitaka ^a   Sasako, Yoshikado ^a   Nakano, Kiyoharu ^a   Eishi, Kiyoyuki ^a   Kito, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kawashima, Yasunaru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

embolism; fibrillation; surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DISOPYRAMIDE; QUINIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0028844570     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.92.9.359     Document Type: Article

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