Preoperative Atrial Fibrillation is associated with long-term
morTality in patients undergoing suRgical AortiC valvE Replacement
Mohamed Farag MSc PhD 1,2*, Yusuf Kiberu MD1*, S Ashwin Reddy MD 1, Ahmad
Shoaib MD 3, Mohaned Egred BSc MD 4,
Unni Krishnan PhD 1, Mina Fares MD1, Marta Peverelli MD 1, Diana A
Gorog MD PhD 2, Walid Elmahdy MSc PhD1, Marius Berman MD 1, Mohamed Osman
MSc PhD 1; AF-TRACER investigators
- Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- Postgraduate Medical School, University of Hertfordshire,
Hertfordshire, UK
- Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK
* Joint first authors