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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:1683-1684
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Stefano Benussi, MD, PhD1, Simona Nascimbene, MD, Ottavio Alfieri, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, S Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy

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

Dr Patwardhan complains that two seminal papers describing his pioneering experience in surgical ablation with bipolar coagulation1,2Go were not given due consideration in articles published by us3Go and by others.

We recognize that Patwardhan’s intuitions opened the way to the modern scenario of surgical ablation. Nevertheless, only 2 of 74 articles among PubMed-listed clinical papers focusing on atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation with bipolar radiofrequency (RF) (by matching AF with bipolar RF) quote Patwardhan’s works.

There are different possible reasons for this reiterated omission:

First of all, Patwardhan and colleagues reported using a standard electrocautery in the bipolar mode to ablate the atrial myocardium. This is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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