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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:357
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Simplified Left Atrial Volume Reduction and Modified Maze Procedure as Treatment for Permanent Atrial Fibrillation During Concomitant Mitral Surgery

Giuseppe D’Ancona, MD, Gianluca Santise, MD, Sergio Sciacca, MD, Francesco Pirone, MD, Michele Pilato, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, ISMETT, Via Tricomi 1, 30127 Palermo, Italy

(Email: rgea@hotmail.com).

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To the Editor:

We have read the article by Badhwar and colleagues [1] with interest and we commend the authors for their timely report.

Treatment of permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) should not be limited to simple ablation around the pulmonary veins (PV). More strenuous efforts are needed whenever left atria (LA) are enlarged and when substantial substrate for AF generation and perpetuation exists. In a previous report, Scherer and colleagues [2] proposed an alternative LA reduction technique by closing the LA . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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