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Catheter Ablation versus Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation in Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (CASA-AF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation is the commonest arrhythmia which raises the risk of heart failure, thromboembolic stroke, morbidity and death. Pharmacological treatments of this condition are focused on heart rate control, rhythm control and reduction in risk of stroke. Selective ablation of cardia...

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Autores principales: Khan, Habib Rehman, Kralj-Hans, Ines, Haldar, Shouvik, Bahrami, Toufan, Clague, Jonathan, De Souza, Anthony, Francis, Darrel, Hussain, Wajid, Jarman, Julian, Jones, David Gareth, Mediratta, Neeraj, Mohiaddin, Raad, Salukhe, Tushar, Jones, Simon, Lord, Joanne, Murphy, Caroline, Kelly, Joanna, Markides, Vias, Gupta, Dhiraj, Wong, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29458408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2487-9