Atrial fibrillation burden: A 'hard' indicator of therapeutic efficacy and a prognostic marker to boot?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 964-965

  Shah, Dipen ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; THERAPY EFFECT;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 45349105230     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn108     Document Type: Editorial

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