Atrial Fibrillation After Lung Transplantation: Timing, Risk Factors, and Treatment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1878-1884

  Mason, David P ^a   Marsh, Dale H ^a   Alster, Joan M ^a   Murthy, Sudish C ^a   McNeill, Ann M ^a   Budev, Marie M ^b   Mehta, Atul C ^b   Pettersson, Gösta B ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Allergy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; METOPROLOL; PROCAINAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36248990241     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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