Predictors of Failure to Cure Atrial Fibrillation with the Mini-Maze Operation

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Szalay, Zoltan A ^a   Skwara, Wojtek ^a   Klövekorn, Wolf Peter ^a   Rocca, Hans Peter Brunner La ^b   Knez, Igor ^c   Graves, Kirk ^c   Vogt, Paul R ^c   Bauer, Erwin P ^a  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RHYTHM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MAZE OPERATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0842329715     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.04001.x     Document Type: Article

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