Atrial fibrillation in a pregnant woman with a normal heart

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-88

  Cacciotti, Luca ^a   Camastra, Giovanni S ^a   Ansalone, Gerardo ^a  

^a Madre Giuseppina Vannini Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METOPROLOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 76049117995     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-009-0312-x     Document Type: Letter

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