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SUBMITTER: Henn MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4637220 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henn Matthew C MC Lancaster Timothy S TS Miller Jacob R JR Sinn Laurie A LA Schuessler Richard B RB Moon Marc R MR Melby Spencer J SJ Maniar Hersh S HS Damiano Ralph J RJ
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 20150808 5
<h4>Objective</h4>The Cox maze IV procedure (CMPIV) has been established as the gold standard for surgical ablation; however, late outcomes using current consensus definitions of treatment failure have not been well described. To compare to reported outcomes of catheter-based ablation, we report our institutional outcomes of patients who underwent a left-sided or biatrial CMPIV at 5 years of follow-up.<h4>Methods</h4>Between January 2002 and September 2014, data were collected prospectively on 5 ...[more]