New-onset sustained ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation early after cardiac operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2083-2088

  Yeung Lai Wah, John A ^a   Qi, Anzhen ^a,b   McNeill, Elizabeth ^a   Abel, James G ^a   Tung, Stanley ^a   Humphries, Karin H ^a   Kerr, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 2542503341     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.020     Document Type: Article

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