Leukocytosis and Increased Risk of Atrial Fibrillation After General Thoracic Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1057-1061

  Amar, David ^a   Goenka, Anuj ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Park, Bernard ^a   Thaler, Howard T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL STRESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS;

EID: 33747364974     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.103     Document Type: Article

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