Thoracoscopic infrared ablation to create a box lesion as a treatment for atrial fibrillation.
Hiroshi KubotaToshiya OhtsukaMikio NinomiyaTakahiro NonakaMotoyuki HisagiHidehito EndoSachito MinegishiHiroshi TsuchiyaYusuke InabaPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2022)
The infrared coagulator might have enough potential to create transmural lesions on the beating heart in thoracoscopic AF surgery.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- catheter ablation
- heart failure
- minimally invasive
- left atrial
- oral anticoagulants
- left atrial appendage
- robot assisted
- direct oral anticoagulants
- coronary artery bypass
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- thoracic surgery
- risk assessment
- surgical site infection
- acute coronary syndrome
- venous thromboembolism