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Serum potassium level and risk of postoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
point for selecting candidates to CRT. However, one issue still remains: what is the best predictive echocardiographic method (among the different Doppler tissue imaging techniques) for selecting those patients? This requires larger studies comparing the positive and negative predictive values of several techniques already published. From this point, it can be emphasized that heart failure pati...
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1 Postgraduate School, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Av. Salaverry 2255, Lima 27, Peru; 2 Health Outcomes and Clinical Epidemiology Section, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Departments of Hospital Medicine & Outcomes Research (Anesthesiology), and Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.05.034