Successful treatment of lone persistent atrial fibrillation by means of a hybrid thoracoscopic-transcatheter approach

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 254-258

  Muneretto, Claudio ^a   Bisleri, Gianluigi ^a   Bontempi, Luca ^b   Cheema, Faisal H ^c   Curnis, Antonio ^a  

^a Spedali Civili   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYBRID THORACOSCOPIC TRANSCATHETER APPROACH; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84869830607     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e31826f0462     Document Type: Article

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