Intraoperative Modified Cox Mini-Maze Procedure for Long-Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1283-1289

  Cui, Yong Qiang ^a   Sun, Ling Bo ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Xu, Chun Lei ^a   Han, Jie ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Meng, Xu ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40749121661     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.037     Document Type: Article

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