Atrial tachyarrhythmias and the cox-maze procedure in congenital heart disease

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 434-439

  Gutierrez, Sherrill D ^a   Earing, Michael G ^a   Singh, Anoop K ^a   Tweddell, James S ^a   Bartz, Peter J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial Fibrillation; Atrial Flutter; Congenital Heart Disease; Maze

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DOFETILIDE; DRONEDARONE; FLECAINIDE; MEXILETINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COX MAZE PROCEDURE; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVOR; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; MAZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884759864     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12031     Document Type: Article

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