Midterm results of stand-alone thoracoscopic epicardial ablation with box lesion for atrial fibrillation.
Chunyu YuHaojie LiHeng ZhangZhe ZhengPublished in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2021)
In patients with paroxysmal AF and left atrial diameter ≤40 mm, 5-year freedom from atrial tachyarrhythmias without AADs was 74.3%, which was better than that in patients with left atrial diameter >40 mm. A larger sample size and improved study design are needed to confirm our conclusions.
Keyphrases
- left atrial
- atrial fibrillation
- catheter ablation
- optic nerve
- left atrial appendage
- oral anticoagulants
- direct oral anticoagulants
- heart failure
- transcription factor
- binding protein
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- robot assisted
- optical coherence tomography
- minimally invasive
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease