Reply to Chan and Harky

Affiliations

¹ Servicio de Cirugía Cardiaca, Hospital Universitario de León-CAULE, León, Spain.
² Servicio de Cirugía Cardiaca, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), A Coruña, Spain.

Comment

E Martín-Gutiérrez et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 1;58(5):1102-1103.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezaa176.

¹ Servicio de Cirugía Cardiaca, Hospital Universitario de León-CAULE, León, Spain.
² Servicio de Cirugía Cardiaca, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), A Coruña, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Meta-analysis; Stroke.

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