Minimally invasive surgery for atrial fibrillation
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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Virna L Sales1, Patrick M McCarthy
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Abstract:
There are currently many promising innovations using minimal-access procedures, instrumentation, and devices for stand-alone and concomitant AF. It is prudent to say that within a few years, surgeons will be performing a number of surgical ablations with minimal complexity and maximum effectiveness, using port-accessed, video-assisted, and robot-assisted surgical techniques with the aid of hybrid approaches, less invasive devices, and specialized navigation instruments.
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