Prognostic significance of atrial fibrillation is a function of left ventricular ejection fraction

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 349-354

  Pai, Ramdas G ^a,b   Varadarajan, Padmini ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiogram; Ejection fraction; Electrocardiogram; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QT PROLONGATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CALIFORNIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34547182833     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20107     Document Type: Article

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