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

Evangelos Polymeropoulos ¹ * , Pantelis Bagos ², Maria Papadimitriou ³, Ioannis Rizos ⁴, Efstratios Patsouris ⁵, Ioannis Toumpoulis ⁶

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