A Comparison of Atrial Arrhythmias After Heart or Double-Lung Transplantation at a Single Center. Insights Into the Mechanism of Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2043-2048

  Dizon, José ^a   Chen, Kimberly ^a   Bacchetta, Matthew ^a   Argenziano, Michael ^a   Mancini, Donna ^a   Biviano, Angelo ^a   Sonett, Joshua ^a   Garan, Hasan ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac transplantation; post operative atrial fibrillation; pulmonary transplantation; pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 71849105182     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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