Incidence of postdischarge symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft: Long-term foliow-up

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-367

  Antonelli, Dante ^a   Peres, Dimitri ^a   Freedberg, Nahum Adam ^a   Feldman, Alexander ^a   Rosenfeld, Tiberio ^a  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Coronary artery bypass graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 1542610713     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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