Characterization and Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation-caused Adverse Events After Hospital Discharge for Cardiac Surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• •surgical procedures that do not include coronary artery bypass graft surgery, aortic valve surgery or mitral valve surgery;
• •surgical procedures that include MAZE surgery, or pulmonary vein isolation, ventricular assist device, heart transplantation, congenital heart surgery, bacterial endocarditis, cardiac trauma, cardiac tumor, ventricular septal defect repair, left ventricular aneurysm repair, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, sub-aortic stenosis resection or surgical ventricular restoration;
• •surgical procedures on patients that have undergone MAZE surgery, AF ablation procedures, pulmonary vein isolation or left atrial appendage resection or ablation (such as Watchman devices).