Atrial fibrillation and heart failure - Five more years

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2437-2440

  Stevenson, William G ^a   Stevenson, Lynne W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 16544365563     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe048248     Document Type: Editorial

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