Comparative efficacy of the maze procedure for restoration of atrial contraction in patients with and without giant left atrium associated with mitral valve disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1097-1102

  Yuda, Satoshi ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Isobe, Fumitaka ^a   Kosakai, Yoshio ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIOMEGALY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032053715     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00058-8     Document Type: Article

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