Anticoagulation Issues

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: The State of the Art Based on the Venicechart International Consensus Document

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 41-50

  Prystowsky, Eric N ^a   Themistoclakis, Sakis ^b   Brachmann, Johannes ^c   Callans, David ^d   Connolly, Stuart ^e   Lip, Gregory Y ^f   Waldo, Albert L ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

^c KLINIKUM COBURG   (Germany)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Thromboembolism; Thrombotic stroke; Transesophageal echocardiogram; Warfarin therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889454343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692646.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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