Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation is Not Correlated to C-Reactive Protein

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1332-1337

  Ahlsson, Anders J ^a   Bodin, Lennart ^a   Lundblad, Olof H ^a   Englund, Anders G ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE MB;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33947328899     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.11.047     Document Type: Article

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