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A systematic review of minimally invasive surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation: a comparison of the Cox-Maze procedure, beating-heart epicardial ablation, and the hybrid procedure on safety and efficacy [1]

Submitted by ctsnetstaff [2] on Tue, 2015-09-29 15:02

This systematic review compares three minimally invasive techniques for surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation: the endocardial Cox-Maze procedure, epicardial surgical ablation and an epicardial surgical and catheter-based endocardial ablation hybrid procedure. According to this analysis, the Cox-Maze procedure is the most effective one and has important safety advantages.

Source name: 
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
Resource link: 
http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/48/4/531.abstract [3]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [4]
Author(s): 
Hyung Gon Je, Deborah J. Shuman, and Niv Ad
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/systematic-review-minimally-invasive-surgical-treatment-atrial-fibrillation-comparison-cox-maze

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/systematic-review-minimally-invasive-surgical-treatment-atrial-fibrillation-comparison-cox-maze [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/ctsnetstaff [3] http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/48/4/531.abstract [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac