Bisleri Gianluigi, Manzato Aldo, Argenziano Michael, Vigilance Deon W, Muneretto Claudio
Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy.
Europace. 2005 Mar;7(2):145-8. doi: 10.1016/j.eupc.2004.12.005.
Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation recently gained new popularity since the introduction of different energy sources for ablative therapy as an alternative to the original "cut-and-sew" techniques. However, most of the cases have been performed together with other cardiac surgical procedures and mainly through a standard median sternotomy approach. We report here the first European case of closed-chest thoracoscopic pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
