Thoracoscopic epicardial pulmonary vein ablation for lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. |
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Authors: | Gianluigi Bisleri Aldo Manzato Michael Argenziano Deon W Vigilance Claudio Muneretto |
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Affiliation: | Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy. gianluigi_bisleri@katamail.com |
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Abstract: | Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation recently gained new popularity since the introduction of different energy sources for ablative therapy as an alternative to the original "cut-and-sew" techniques. However, most of the cases have been performed together with other cardiac surgical procedures and mainly through a standard median sternotomy approach. We report here the first European case of closed-chest thoracoscopic pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. |
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Keywords: | atrial fibrillation epicardial ablation thoracoscopy closed-chest surgery |
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