Thoracoscopic epicardial pulmonary vein ablation for lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

Autor: Bisleri, Gianluigi, Manzato, Aldo, Argenziano, Michael, Vigilance, Deon W., Muneretto, Claudio
Zdroj: EP: Europace; 2005, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p145-148, 4p
Abstrakt: Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation recently gained new popularity since the introduction of different energy sources for ablative therapy as an alternative to the original “cut-and-sew” techniques. However, most of the cases have been performed together with other cardiac surgical procedures and mainly through a standard median sternotomy approach. We report here the first European case of closed-chest thoracoscopic pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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