Design and rationale of the PRAGUE-12 trial: A large, prospective, randomized, multicenter trial that compares cardiac surgery with left atrial surgical ablation with cardiac surgery without ablation in patients with coronary and/or valvular heart disease plus atrial fibrillation

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Straka, Zbyněk ^a   Budera, Petr ^a   Osmančík, Pavel ^a   Vaněk, Tomáš ^a   Hulman, Michal ^b   Šmíd, Michal ^a   Malý, Marek ^c   Widimský, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Slovakia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872343157     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22085     Document Type: Article

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