Current Strategies in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 357-364

  Jahangiri, Marjan ^a   Weir, Graeme ^a   Mandal, Kaushik ^a   Savelieva, Irina ^a   Camm, John ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROWAVE THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE MANAGEMENT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ENDOCARDIUM; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 33745218938     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.11.035     Document Type: Review

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