Atrial fibrillation: Food for thought in 2013

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 937-938

  Alpert, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; COLCHICINE; PLACEBO; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHA2DS2 VASC SCORE; CHADS2 SCORE; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATION; HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84886437102     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.02.038     Document Type: Editorial

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