Atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery: risk analysis and long-term survival.

• Published in: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Main Authors: Helgadottir, Solveig, Sigurdsson, Martin I, Ingvarsdottir, Inga L, Arnar, David O, Gudbjartsson, Tomas
• Other Authors: Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2013
• Subjects: Aged; Atrial Fibrillation; Coronary Artery Bypass; Female; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; Humans; Iceland; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Postoperative Complications; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Meier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/299649; https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-87

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. We studied potential risk factors for postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) in a large cohort of patients who underwent open-heart surgery, evaluating short- and long-term outcome, and...