Corridor procedure - Surgical option for treatment of chronic atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement

Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 320-327

  Velimirovic, D B ^a   Petrovic, P ^a   Djukic, P ^a   Vranes, M ^a   Pavlovic, S U ^a   Zivkovic, M ^a  

^a CCS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Corridor procedure; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0031126940     PISSN: 09672109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-2109(97)00022-7     Document Type: Article

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