Chronic Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Reduced Survival After Aortic and Double Valve Replacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 738-744

  Schulenberg, Richard ^a   Antonitsis, Polychronis ^a   Stroebel, Andrie ^a   Westaby, Stephen ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76849106822     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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