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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;137:1036
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Why is freedom from atrial fibrillation still lower with endoscopic pulmonary vein isolation than with the Cox maze III procedure?

Bachar El Oumeiri, MD, Alain Jean Poncelet, MD, Gebrine El Khoury, MD

Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCL, Brussels, Belgium

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the recent article by Yilmaz and coworkers.1Go We have some brief comments. Since its first description in the Journal in 1991 by Cox and colleagues, the Cox maze procedure and its subsequent modifications have been the most frequently used option for patients with intractable supraventricular arrhythmias, with the results heavily scrutinized. Although reported results have varied somewhat, long-term success (freedom from atrial fibrillation [AF] . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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