These data show that an echocardiogram before major thoracic surgery, increased use of preoperative β-blockers, and decreased left atrial emptying fraction were associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation.
Echocardiographic predictors of left atrial mechanical dysfunction may prove clinically useful in risk stratifying patients in whom postoperative atrial fibrillation is more likely to develop and to benefit from prevention strategies aimed at mitigating atrial function before surgery.
2012-01-17
Eng.
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Feb;143(2):482-7
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