Vitamin C for the Prevention of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-Analysis

• Main Authors: Evangelos Polymeropoulos (Author), Pantelis Bagos (Author), Maria Papadimitriou (Author), Ioannis Rizos (Author), Efstratios Patsouris (Author), Ioannis Toumpoulis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: Several studies have investigated the administration of vitamin C (vitC) for the prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardiac surgery. However, their findings were inconsistent. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the efficacy of vitC as prophylaxis for t...