… Addition of concomitant surgical ablation for AF does improve AF-related symptoms, and
this improvement is greater than in patients without surgical ablation for AF. … Training and …

… overall with AF underwent concomitant ablation, indicating underutilization. As you are an
author of the STS guidelines on surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation, based on these data and …

… Studies eligible for this systematic review directly compared surgical ablation techniques to
catheter ablation techniques in patients with AF. Experimental or observational studies were …

… atrial fibrillation who were undergoing mitral-valve surgery, we … of surgical ablation on the
recurrence of atrial fibrillation in … after surgery and to explore the effects of two different ablation …

… contributions to the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. In … surgical ablation during mitralvalve
surgery, more patients in the ablation group than in the control group were free from atrial …

… surgical ablation in a population of patients with failed prior RCA and/or dilated atria and
hypertension, and showed surgical ablation to … ) in achieving freedom from arrhythmia after a 12-…

… of the surgical ablation procedures (biatrial and left atrial) in reducing postoperative atrial
fibrillation … Thus we defined included surgical ablation procedures as either biatrial or left atrial …

… Catheter ablation (CA) and minimally invasive surgical ablation (SA) have become accepted
therapy for antiarrhythmic drug–refractory atrial fibrillation. This study describes the first …

… In summary, up to 90% of intermittent (“paroxysmal” or “persistent”) atrial fibrillation can
be … ”) atrial fibrillation, however, it is essential to add additional lesions in the left atrium, …

… set and ablative … Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation” module developed by the STS will
theoretically improve the ability to collect meaningful data related to the lesion set and ablative …