Box lesion or bi-atrial lesion set for atrial fibrillation during thoracoscopic epicardial ablation

Z Zheng, H Li, S Liu, G Gao, C Yu… - … and thoracic surgery, 2022 - academic.oup.com
OBJECTIVES Thoracoscopic epicardial ablation with a limited lesion set led to suboptimal
results for advanced paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) or persistent AF. Whether additional …

Thoracoscopic Surgical Biatrial Ablation vs. Catheter Ablation in Patients with Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

C Yu, H Li, S Yuan, L Zheng, L Wu… - Journal of Cardiac …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Limited randomized controlled studies showed that thoracoscopic surgical left
atrial ablation was not superior to catheter ablation (CA) in patients with persistent atrial …

Commentary: Cox maze with septal myectomy

HG Roberts, LM Wei, V Badhwar - The Journal of Thoracic and …, 2021 - jtcvs.org
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with obstruction is recognized as one of the most
common causes of nontraumatic sudden death, following its first description in 1958. 1 Since …

Commentary: Achieving success after ablation for atrial fibrillation: It's what you do and not how you do it

HL Lazar - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022 - jtcvs.org
In this edition of the Journal, Huang and co-workers 1 report the results of a meta-analysis
comparing the absence of atrial fibrillation (AF) over a 12-month period without …