Do off-pump techniques reduce the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation in elderly patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1567-1574

  Athanasiou, Thanos ^b   Aziz, Omer ^a   Mangoush, Omar ^a   Weerasinghe, Arjuna ^a   Al Ruzzeh, Sharif ^a   Purkayastha, Sanjay ^a   Pepper, John ^a   Amrani, Mohamed ^a   Glenville, Brian ^a   Casula, Roberto ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 11144358434     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.10.040     Document Type: Article

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