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Robotic Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: May 29, 2015
Treatment of lone atrial fibrillation with a right thoracoscopic approach
Mark La Meir1, Luc De Roy, Dominique Blommaert
1Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, UCL Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium. mark.lameir@chex.ucl.ac.be
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 29, 2007
Abstract:
A simplified technique to treat patients in stand-alone atrial fibrillation with a right thoracoscopic approach is described. An electrical isolation of the four pulmonary veins (box lesion) is achieved with a microwave antenna.

