Clinical Risk Factors for Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation among Patients after Cardiac Surgery.

CONCLUSION: The present analysis suggested that older age and history of heart failure were significant risk factors for POAF consistently whether the included studies were prospective or retrospective datasets. PMID: 30071562 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon - August 2, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Yamashita K, Hu N, Ranjan R, Selzman CH, Dosdall DJ Tags: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Source Type: research