A new procedure for chronic atrial fibrillation: Bilateral appendage-preserving maze procedure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1473-1478

  Isobe, Fumitaka ^a   Kumano, Hiroshi ^a   Ishikawa, Takumi ^a   Sasaki, Yasuyuki ^a   Kinugasa, Seiji ^a   Nagamachi, Keima ^a   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0035167824     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03038-7     Document Type: Article

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