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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:2244-2245
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How To Do It

Treatment of Lone Atrial Fibrillation With a Right Thoracoscopic Approach

Mark La Meir, MDa,*, Luc De Roy, MDb, Dominique Blommaert, MDb, Michel Buche, MDa

a Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, UCL Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
b Department of Cardiology, UCL Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium

Accepted for publication August 1, 2006.

* Address correspondence to Dr La Meir, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, UCL Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, 5530, Belgium. (Email: mark.lameir{at}chex.ucl.ac.be).

A simplified technique to treat patients in stand-alone atrial fibrillation with a right thoracoscopic approach is described. An electrical isolation of the four pulmonary veins (box lesion) is achieved with a microwave antenna.




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