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Robotic Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
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Warm beating heart, robotic endoscopic Cox-cryomaze: an approach for treating atrial fibrillation
Faisal H Cheema1, Jeffrey S Weisberg, Imran Khalid
1College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 24, 2009
Abstract:
With recent technological advancements, an increasing number of minimally invasive approaches are being explored as potential alternatives to the traditional cut-and-sew Cox maze III for treating atrial fibrillation. We describe an approach for treating atrial fibrillation that consists of a warm beating heart, robotic endoscopic Cox-cryomaze with a full set of left atrial argon-based cryolesions.
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