Coronary artery embolization after successful surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 960-961

  Wang, Louis W ^a   Omari, Abdullah ^b   Muller, David W M ^a   Jacobs, Neil H ^a   Subbiah, Rajesh N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874460909     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.150359     Document Type: Article

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