Body mass index (BMI), age, left atrium (LA) dimension and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have been linked to post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to better define the role of these risk factors.
Overweight and aging increase the risk of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery independently of left atrial size and left ventricular ejection fraction / Stefàno, Pier Luigi; Bugetti, Marco; Del Monaco, Guido; Popescu, Gloria; Pieragnoli, Paolo; Ricciardi, Giuseppe; Perrotta, Laura; Checchi, Luca; Rondine, Roberto; Bevilacqua, Sergio; Fumagalli, Carlo; Marchionni, Niccolò; Michelucci, Antonio. - In: JOURNAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY. - ISSN 1749-8090. - ELETTRONICO. - 15:(2020), pp. 316-321. [10.1186/s13019-020-01366-x]
Overweight and aging increase the risk of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery independently of left atrial size and left ventricular ejection fraction
Stefàno, Pier Luigi;Bugetti, Marco;Popescu, Gloria;Pieragnoli, Paolo;Perrotta, Laura;Checchi, Luca;Rondine, Roberto;Bevilacqua, Sergio;Marchionni, Niccolò;Michelucci, Antonio
2020
Abstract
Body mass index (BMI), age, left atrium (LA) dimension and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have been linked to post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to better define the role of these risk factors.
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