Relationship of Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: When is Anticoagulation Indicated?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 515-523

  Kollar, Andras ^a   Lick, Scott D ^a   Vasquez, Kathleen N ^a   Conti, Vincent R ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746210042     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.037     Document Type: Article

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