Efficacy of Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Rheumatic Heart Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1437-1442

  Sternik, Leonid ^a   Luria, David ^a   Glikson, Michael ^a   Malachy, Ateret ^a   First, Maya ^a   Raanani, Ehud ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; RHYTHMEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA SURGERY; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WOUND INFECTION; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953029886     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.01.047     Document Type: Article

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