Effect of Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation Associated With Mitral Valve Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1212-1217

  Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Hori, Hidetsugu ^a   Ueda, Tomohiro ^a   Takagi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Tayama, Eiki ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAZE PROCEDURE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 52049090827     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.05.063     Document Type: Article

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