Is Significance of Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Aortic Dissection Underestimated?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-170

  Koracevic, Goran ^a   Djordjevic, Danijela ^a   Glasnovic, Jozef ^a  

^a Medical Faculty Nis   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERBIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651202581     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.11.094     Document Type: Letter

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