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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1795. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.097
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Guidelines for Reporting Data and Outcomes for the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

Seyed Ahmad Hassantash, MD, FACS, Behnood Bikdeli, MD, Shadi Kalantarian, MD, Maryam Sadeghian, MD, Farshad Kasraee, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Center, Modarres Medical Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Sa’Adat Abat, Tehran 19814, Iran

(Email: sahassan@pol.net).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We appreciate the thoroughness of Shemin and colleagues [1] in preparing a framework for reporting data on the surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation. Most existing studies have not applied uniform descriptions; this endangers comparisons and introduces too much heterogeneity (ie, clinical, methodological, and statistical) into a pooled analysis [2]. These guidelines may prove . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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