Curative treatment of atrial fibrillation with intraoperative radiofrequency ablation: Short-term and midterm results

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 919-927

  Mohr, Friedrich W ^a   Fabricius, Alexander M ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Autschbach, Rüdiger ^a   Doll, Nicolas ^a   Von Oppell, Ulrich ^a   Diegeler, Anno ^a   Kottkamp, Hans ^a   Hindricks, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SINUS RHYTHM; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036587117     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.120730     Document Type: Article

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