Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-99

  Jongnarangsin, Krit ^a   Oral, Hakan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DIGITALIS; DILTIAZEM; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOFETILIDE; FLECAINIDE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IBUTILIDE; MAGNESIUM; PLACEBO; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 36448970520     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2007.09.004     Document Type: Review

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