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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:381
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Maze procedure

Norbert M. van Hemel, MD, Jo A.M.T. Defauw, MD

Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Antonius Hospital, Koekoekslaan 1 Nieuwegein 3435 CM, The Netherlands

e-mail: heme01@antonius.net

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To the Editor:

We appreciated the review of the rationale for, methods of, and results of operation for atrial fibrillation (AF) presented by Gillinov and associates [1]. However, we do not agree with them about several aspects of operation for AF.

The authors have strong reasons to mention the need of universally accepted rules for uniform collection, analysis, and reporting of AF surgical results. This is presumably the major reason for the disparity in the results of others whom they cited [1, p 2213]. It is clear that assessment of surgical results and definitions of success and failure cannot be discussed without clarifying the reasons for AF surgical procedures. To our surprise, the authors hardly addressed these reasons and selection criteria, and therefore the proposed rules for assessing the success . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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