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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Autores principales: Geidel, Stephan, Ostermeyer, Jorg, Lass, Michael, Boczor, Sigrid, Kuck, Karl-Heinz
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Group 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1502041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16943907

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1502041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16943907

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