Cardioversion by external electric shock for atrial fibrillation: Does patient age affect the immediate results?;Cardioversion par choc électrique externe de la fibrillation auriculaire: L'âge des patients affecte-t-il les résultats immédiats?

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 561-566

  Sbragia, P ^a   Arques S ^a   Franceschi, E ^a   Thuny, F ^a   Saadjian, A ^a   Gelisse R ^a   Paganelli, F ^a   Boccara, G ^a   Ricard, P ^a   Levy S ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVERSION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036296643     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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