Long-Term Outcomes of Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation: Guilty as Charged

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: atul.verma@utoronto.ca.
² Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Atul Verma et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018.

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. 2018 Feb 20;71(7):749-751.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.12.034.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: atul.verma@utoronto.ca.
² Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; mortality; post-operative; stroke.

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