Verapamil as prophylactic treatment for atrial fibrillation after lung operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1083-1086

  Van Mieghem, Walter ^a,b   Tits, Geert ^a   Demuynck, Koen ^a   Lacquet, Ludovic ^a   Deneffe, George ^a   Tjandra Maga, Tikma ^a   Demedts, Maurits ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Schiepse Bos   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRADYCARDIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; LUNG RESECTION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRADYCARDIA; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0040159428     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00073-2     Document Type: Article

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