Concomitant anti-arrhythmic surgery, using irrigated cooled-tip radiofrequency ablation, to treat permanent atrial fibrillation in CABG patients: Expansion of the indication?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1018-1024

  Khargi, Krishna ^a   Lemke, Bernd ^a   Haardt, Helmut ^a   Müller, Klaus Michael ^a   Mügge, Andreas ^a   Laczkovics, Axel ^a   Deneke, Thomas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia surgery; Atrial fibrillation; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Electro physiology; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442567007     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.02.010     Document Type: Article

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