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Pulmonary vein orifice isolation for elimination of chronic atrial fibrillation
1First Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan. sueda@mcai.med.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 10, 2001
Abstract:
We present a 61-year-old woman with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) associated with mitral valve disease. Chronic AF was successfully treated by simple isolation of pulmonary vein orifices concomitant with mitral valve replacemen