Atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery: risk analysis and long-term survival

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Helgadottir, Solveig ^a   Sigurdsson, Martin I ^a   Ingvarsdottir, Inga L ^a   Arnar, David O ^a,b   Gudbjartsson, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Atrial valve replacement; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Postoperative atrial fibrillation; Prophylaxis; Risk assessment; Risk factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; ICELAND; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; ICELAND; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866283852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-7-87     Document Type: Article

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