Assessing the complications from atrial fibrillation ablation: Closer to truth

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1272-1273

  Hutchinson, Mathew ^a   Callans, David J ^a  

^a Electrophysiology Section   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

CATHETER ABLATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34648827374     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.08.016     Document Type: Editorial

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