Mortality after cardiac surgery with or without microwave ablation in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 531-537

  Knaut, Michael ^a,d   Tugtekin, Sems M ^a   Spitzer, Stefan ^b   Jung, Friedrich ^c   Matschke, Klaus ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Praxisklinnik Herz und Gefäße ^*  (Germany)

^c Institute for Heart and Circulation Research   (Germany)

^d University Heart Center Dresden   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; METOPROLOL; PHENPROCOUMON; SOTALOL; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATHETER ABLATION; GERMANY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644648670     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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