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Surgical Management of Atrial Fibrillation

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Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with significant morbidity. Medical management of atrial fibrillation is often suboptimal and is challenged by many patient-related or therapy-related difficulties. Surgical options for atrial fibrillation aim to provide an improved efficacy therapy that avoids the shortcomings of lifelong anticoagulation and anti-arrhythmic therapy and/or lifestyle change. The introduction of ablation devices has revolutionized the surgical treatment of AF making procedures available to a wider patient population.

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Bedeir, K., Ramlawi, B. (2020). Surgical Management of Atrial Fibrillation. In: Raja, S. (eds) Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24174-2_79

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