title: Association between red blood cell distribution width and postoperative atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: A pilot observational study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece. Electronic address: p.korantzopoulos@yahoo.gr.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Korantzopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sontis
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300211, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Serafeim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chlapoutakis
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Sokratis
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sismanidis
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Siminelakis
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Ioannina Medical School, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Efstratios
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Apostolakis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D005260:Female; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012372:ROC Curve; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
keywords: Cardiac surgery; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Keywords; Postoperative atrial fibrillation; Prognostic marker; RDW; Valve surgery