welcomes you to the new, improved website!Patients with persisent or long-standing atrial fibrillation requiring mitral valve surgery were randomized to either surgical ablation or no ablation. Surgical ablation patients were further randomized to pulmonary vein isolation or biatrial MAZE. More surgical ablation patients were free from atrial fibrillation than control. There was no difference in atrial fibrillation in pulmonary vein isolation vs. biatrial MAZE.
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Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation during Mitral-Valve Surgery
Submitted by: Tom C. Nguyen
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): A. Marc Gillinov, Annetine C. Gelijns, Michael K. Parides, Joseph J. DeRose, Jr., Alan J. Moskowitz, Pierre Voisine, Gorav Ailawadi, Denis Bouchard, Peter K. Smith, Michael J. Mack, Michael A. Acker, John C. Mullen, Eric A. Rose, Helena L. Chang, John D. Puskas, Jean-Philippe Couderc, Timothy J. Gardner, Robin Varghese, Keith A. Horvath, Steven F. Bolling, Robert E. Michler, Nancy L. Geller, Deborah D. Ascheim, Marissa A. Miller, Emilia Bagiella, Ellen G. Moquete, Paula Williams, Wendy C. Taddei-Peters, Patrick T. O’Gara, Eugene H. Blackstone, and Michael Argenziano for the CTSN Investigators
