Coronary artery disease affecting the atrial branches is an independent determinant of atrial fibrillation after myocardial infarction

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 955-960

  Alasady, Muayad ^a   Abhayaratna, Walter P ^b   Leong, Darryl P ^a   Lim, Han S ^a   Abed, Hany S ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Mattchoss, Sue ^c   Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^a   Worthley, Matthew I ^a   Chew, Derek P ^c   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Coronary angiography Electrophysiology; Myocardial infarction; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HUMAN; INFERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79960032590     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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