Chronic Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Reduced Survival After Aortic and Double Valve Replacement Richard Schulenberg, MD, Polychronis Antonitsis, MD, Andrie Stroebel, MD, Stephen Westaby, MS, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages 738-744 (March 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.023 Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Survival is shown after mitral valve replacement (MVR; black dashed line), aortic valve replacement (AVR; solid black line), AVR with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG; gray line), MVR with CABG (dotted gray line), and double-valve replacement (AVR + MVR, dash-dot line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 89, 738-744DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.023) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Survival is shown in relation to preoperative atrial fibrillation (AF; dashed line) and sinus rhythm (SR, black line) for (A) aortic valve replacement (AVR), (B) AVR and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), (C), mitral valve replacement (MVR), (D) MVR with CABG, and (E) AVR with MVR. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 89, 738-744DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.023) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions