Permanent Chronic Atrial Fibrillation: Is Pulmonary Vein Isolation Alone Enough?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1151-1157

  Wisser, Wilfried ^a   Seebacher, Gernot ^a   Fleck, Tatjana ^a   Aigner, Clemens ^a   Khazen, Cäsar ^a   Stix, Günter ^a   Hutschala, Doris ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548704315     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.027     Document Type: Article

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