Does advanced age affect the immediate and long-term results of direct-current external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1192-1197

  Fumagalli, Stefano ^a   Boncinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Bondi, Ernesta ^a   Caleri, Veronica ^a   Gatto, Silvia ^a   Di Bari, Mauro ^a   Baldereschi, Giorgio ^a   Valoti, Paolo ^a   Masotti, Giulio ^a   Marchionni, Niccolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIRECT CURRENT; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENCE RISK; SINUS RHYTHM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMORBIDITY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036062445     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50304.x     Document Type: Article

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