A Wolf in Sheep's Skin? Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery and the Risk of Stroke and Mortality

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2021 Dec;35(12):3565-3567. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.08.023. Epub 2021 Aug 20.

Authors

Sergey Karamnov¹, Benjamin O'Brien², Jochen D Muehlschlegel³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² Departments of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, German Heart Centre Berlin and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: jmuehlschlegel@bwh.harvard.edu.

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MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation* / diagnosis
Atrial Fibrillation* / epidemiology
Atrial Fibrillation* / etiology
Cardiac Surgical Procedures* / adverse effects
Humans
Stroke* / epidemiology
Stroke* / etiology

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