Perioperative and postoperative arrhythmia in three-vessel coronary artery disease patients and antiarrhythmic effects of ischemic preconditioning

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 578-584

  Wu, Zhong Kai ^a   Iivainen, Tiina ^a   Pehkonen, Erkki ^a   Laurikka, Jari ^a   Tarkka, Matti R ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Ischemic preconditioning; Myocardial protection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION PREVENTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; AORTA; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING, MYOCARDIAL; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037386008     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(03)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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