Surgical treatment of permanent atrial fibrillation during cardiac surgery using monopolar and bipolar radiofrequency ablation

Surgical treatment of permanent atrial fibrillation during cardiac surgery using monopolar and bipolar radiofrequency ablation

Objective: Permanent atrial fibrillation (pAF) is a serious problem in cardiac surgery: An incidence of 3.5% among all patients scheduled for open heart surgery, 9.8% in heart valve cases and 45.6% among patients with severe rheumatic mitral valve (MV) disease was observed in our institution. Our ex...

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Main Authors: Stephan Geidel, Jörg Ostermeyer, Michael Lass, Sigrid Boczor, Karl-Heinz Kuck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2003-07-01
Series:Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
Subjects:
Atrial fibrillation
atrial fibrillation surgery
radiofrequency ablation
arrhythmia surgery
heart valve surgery
maze surgery
bipolar radiofrequency ablation.
Online Access:http://www.ipej.org/0303/geidel.htm

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