Oral Anticoagulation after Successful Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Operations: Is It Necessary?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1471-1476

  Schlingloff, Friederike ^a   Oberhoffer, Martin ^a   Quasdorff, Ines ^a   Wohlmuth, Peter ^a   Schmoeckel, Michael ^a   Geidel, Stephan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APIXABAN; DABIGATRAN; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL RISK; TELEMONITORING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84961200057     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.008     Document Type: Article

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