Treatment strategy and clinical outcome in Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-293

  Suzuki, Shinya ^a   Yamashita, Takeshi ^b   Otsuka, Takayuki ^b   Sagara, Koichi ^b   Uejima, Tokuhisa ^b   Oikawa, Yuji ^b   Yajima, Junji ^b   Koike, Akira ^b   Nagashima, Kazuyuki ^b   Kirigaya, Hajime ^b   Ogasawara, Ken ^b   Sawada, Hitoshi ^b   Yamazaki, Tsutomu ^a   Aizawa, Tadanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; Morbidity; Prognosis; Rhythm control

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; APRINDINE; CIBENZOLINE; DIGITALIS; DISOPYRAMIDE; FLECAINIDE; MEXILETINE; PILSICAINIDE; PIRMENOL; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68349104255     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-008-1121-2     Document Type: Article

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