Video-Assisted Bilateral Epicardial Pulmonary Vein Isolation for the Treatment of Lone Atrial Fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1724-1730

  Sagbas, Ertan ^a   Akpinar, Belhhan ^a   Sanisoglu, Ilhan ^a   Caynak, Bariş ^a   Tamtekin, Burak ^a   Oral, Kerem ^a   Onan, Burak ^a  

^a FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSURGERY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SINUS RHYTHM; STERNOTOMY; THORACOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247268488     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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