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Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Patients with the Cox Maze Procedure Concurrently with Other Cardiac Operations

BACKGROUND: In elderly patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF), surgical ablation of the arrhythmia during cardiac surgery may be challenging. Despite the reported advantages of ablating AF with the Cox maze procedure (CMP), the addition of the CMP may complicate other cardiac operations. We eval...

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Autores principales: Kuh, Ja Hong, Song, Joon Young, Kim, Tae Youn, Kim, Jong Hun, Choi, Jong Bum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28593152
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.3.171