Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Transplantation: Experience in 498 Consecutive Cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-58

  Cohn, William E ^a   Gregoric, Igor D ^a   Radovancevic, Branislav ^a   Wolf, Randall K ^b   Frazier, O H ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CATHETER ABLATION; COLD ISCHEMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART DENERVATION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249027216     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.037     Document Type: Article

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