Update in perioperative cardiac medicine 2021

In the April 2021 issue, in Cohn SL. Update in perioperative cardiac medicine 2021. Cleve Clin J Med 2021; 88(4):216–220, doi:10.3949/ccjm.88a.21014, in the final paragraph, the sentence, “Until further data are available, the risk of chronic atrial fibrillation in patients with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation may be warranted only in patients with a thromboembolic risk above 1.5%…” should read as follows: “Until further data are available, the risk of chronic anti-coagulation in patients with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation may be warranted only in patients with a thromboembolic risk above 1.5%...” This has been corrected online.

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