Totally Extracardiac Maze Procedure Performed on the Beating Heart

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1783-1785

  Kiser, Andy C ^a,c   Wimmer Greinecker, Gerhard ^b   Chitwood, W Randolph ^c  

^a Pinehurst Surgical Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; OFF PUMP SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTALLY EXTRACARDIAC MAZE PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS;

EID: 35348867472     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.027     Document Type: Article

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