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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
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Complete biatrial ablation of atrial fibrillation with bipolar radiofrequency
Stefano Benussi1, Maurizio Taramasso, Alberto Pozzoli
1Department of Cardiothoracic, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery : MMCTS
|January 14, 2014
Abstract:
Here we report the description of a simple, safe and reproducible technique to perform a complete biatrial set of lines, entailing left and right isthmus lines, using bipolar radiofrequency as a solo modality or in combination with cryoenergy.
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