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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;130:234
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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Reply to the Editor:

Takashi Nitta, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

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I appreciate the comments by Dr Shanmugam.

All surgical procedures are based on the anatomic or physiologic conditions, and thus so should be the operation for atrial fibrillation (AF). The most challenging but exciting issue in surgical intervention for arrhythmias is that the lesions responsible for maintaining the arrhythmias are not usually visible by use of the ordinary approaches. We found intraoperative mapping to be useful in determining the mechanism of AF and the optimal procedure in each patient. The patients who underwent the simple procedure were selected only on the basis of the results of the analysis in the study. If the patients with right atrial reentry had undergone the simple procedure, the AF would . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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