Improved Patient Survival With Concomitant Cox Maze III Procedure Compared With Heart Surgery Alone

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 440-446

  Louagie, Yves ^a   Buche, Michel ^a   Eucher, Philippe ^a   Schoevaerdts, Jean Claude ^a   Gerard, Marina ^a   Jamart, Jacques ^a   Blommaert, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58249129880     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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