Atrial fibrillation monitoring: Mathematics meets real life

Circulation

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 791-792

  Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Piorkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; diagnosis; Editorials

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84865274624     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.124735     Document Type: Editorial

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