Low-energy internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation after failed external cardioversion texas heart institute experience and review of the literature

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 114-119

  Zaqqa, Munir ^a   Afshar, Hamid ^a   Reza Khoshnevis, G ^a   Alberto Lopez, J ^a   Massumi, Ali ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants therapeutic use; Atrial fibrillation therapy; Electric countershock methods; Heart catheterization methods

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERY EMBOLISM; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0032985445     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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