Serial change in the atrial transport function after the radial incision approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 572-576

  Ishii, Yosuke ^a   Nitta, Takashi ^a   Fujii, Masahiro ^a   Ogasawara, Hidetsugu ^a   Iwaki, Hideyuki ^a   Ohkubo, Naoko ^a   Tanaka, Shigeo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035116652     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02520-0     Document Type: Article

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