Simple left atrial procedure for chronic atrial fibrillation associated with mitral valve disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1796-1800

  Sueda, Taijiro ^a   Nagata, Hideyuki ^a   Shikata, Hiroo ^a   Orihashi, Kazumasa ^a   Morita, Satoru ^a   Sueshiro, Masafumi ^a   Okada, Kenji ^a   Matsuura, Yuichiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030560603     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00613-3     Document Type: Article

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