Preoperative electrocardiographic risk assessment of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1379-1386

  Gang, Yi ^a   Hnatkova, Katerina ^a   Mandal, Kaushik ^b   Ghuran, Azad ^a   Malik, Marek ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Coronary artery disease; Electrocardiogram; P wave; Signal averaged electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; P WAVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL RISK; T WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 10944219704     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2004.04084.x     Document Type: Article

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