Postoperative atrial fibrillation: mechanisms, manifestations and management

D Dobrev, M Aguilar, J Heijman, JB Guichard… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) complicates 20–40% of cardiac surgical procedures
and 10–20% of non-cardiac thoracic operations. Typical features include onset at 2–4 days …

Post-operative atrial fibrillation: a maze of mechanisms

B Maesen, J Nijs, J Maessen, M Allessie, U Schotten - Europace, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is one of the most frequent complications of cardiac
surgery and an important predictor of patient morbidity as well as of prolonged …

A multicenter risk index for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

JP Mathew, ML Fontes, IC Tudor, J Ramsay, P Duke… - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAtrial fibrillation is a common, but potentially preventable, complication following
coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ObjectivesTo assess the nature and …

Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

WH Maisel, JD Rawn, WG Stevenson - Annals of internal medicine, 2001 - acpjournals.org
Purpose: To review the epidemiology, mechanisms, complications, predictors, prevention,
and treatment of atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery. Data Sources: MEDLINE search …

Postoperative atrial fibrillation in non‐cardiac and cardiac surgery: an overview

A Bessissow, J Khan, PJ Devereaux… - … of thrombosis and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is the most common perioperative cardiac arrhythmia.
A major risk factor for POAF is advanced age, both in non‐cardiac and cardiac surgery …

New‐onset atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting and long‐term outcome: a population‐based nationwide study from the SWEDEHEART registry

A Taha, SJ Nielsen, L Bergfeldt, A Ahlsson… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The long‐term impact of new‐onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after
coronary artery bypass grafting and the benefit of early‐initiated oral anticoagulation (OAC) …

Bedside tool for predicting the risk of postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: the POAF score

G Mariscalco, F Biancari, M Zanobini… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most common complication after cardiac
surgery. The present study aim was to derive an effective bedside tool to predict …

Postoperative arrhythmias after cardiac surgery: incidence, risk factors, and therapeutic management

G Peretto, A Durante, LR Limite… - … research and practice, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Arrhythmias are a known complication after cardiac surgery and represent a major cause of
morbidity, increased length of hospital stay, and economic costs. However, little is known …

An open-source framework for stress-testing non-invasive foetal ECG extraction algorithms

F Andreotti, J Behar, S Zaunseder… - Physiological …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decades, many studies have been published on the extraction of non-invasive
foetal electrocardiogram (NI-FECG) from abdominal recordings. Most of these contributions …

Corticosteroids for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial

J Halonen, P Halonen, O Järvinen, P Taskinen… - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia to occur after cardiac surgery.
An exaggerated inflammatory response has been proposed to be one etiological factor …