Minimally invasive surgical atrial fibrillation ablation: Patient selection and results

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Han, Frederick T ^a   Kasirajan, Vigneshwar ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Surgical ablation

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SEPSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70749109998     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.027     Document Type: Article

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