Long-term sinus rhythm maintenance after cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation: Is the treatment's success predictable?

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 375-381

  Kosior, Dariusz A ^a   Szulc, Marcin ^a   Opolski, Grzegorz ^a   Torbicki, Adam ^b   Rabczenko, Daniel ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrocardioversion; Sinus rhythm maintenance

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36048993690     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-006-0915-3     Document Type: Article

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