Post-Cardiac Surgery Atrial Fibrillation: Risks, Mechanisms, Prevention, and Management.
Card Electrophysiol Clin
; 13(1): 133-140, 2021 03.
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ABSTRACT
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common complication of cardiac surgery (CS). There are numerous risk factors, proposed mechanisms, and financial/clinical implications of post-CS AF (PCSAF). Management involves 2 arms prevention and treatment. This review highlights and summarizes previous literature on PCSAF and challenges the standard dogma regarding anticoagulation, particularly in the short term.
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Complicaciones Posoperatorias
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Fibrilación Atrial
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Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Cardíacos
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Card Electrophysiol Clin
Año:
2021
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Article