Guideline calls for better treatment of atrial fibrillation
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Guideline for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and its prevalence is ∼1-2% of the general population, but higher with increasing age and in patients with concomitant heart disease. The Cox-maze III procedure was a groundbreaking development and remains the surgical intervention with the highest cure rate, but due to its technical difficulty alternative techniques have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.333.7572.772-b