Does Preoperative Atrial Fibrillation Portend a Poorer Prognosis in Patients Undergoing Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement? A Multicentre Australian Study

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 697-703

  Saxena, Akshat ^a   Dinh, Diem T ^b   Reid, Christopher M ^b   Smith, Julian A ^b   Shardey, Gilbert C ^c   Newcomb, Andrew E ^a,d  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84878135031     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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