Arrhythmia surgery

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-44

  Ferguson Jr , T Bruce ^a,b   Cox, James L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Queeny Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINUS NODE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029686024     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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