Cox J L, Boineau J P, Schuessler R B, Kater K M, Ferguson T B, Cain M E, Lindsay B D, Smith J M, Corr P B, Hogue C B
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Adv Card Surg. 1995;6:1-67.
After more than a decade of experimental and clinical research into the basic mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation, we were able to develop a surgical procedure that appears to cure the arrhythmia. This surgical procedure has been used in 100 patients in our institution and in a total of approximately 130 patients by surgeons in other institutions. The surgical results have been excellent, which indicates the sophisticated electrophysiologic mapping systems are unnecessary and that the results are not surgeon-specific.
经过十多年对房颤基本机制的实验和临床研究，我们得以开发出一种似乎能治愈心律失常的外科手术方法。该手术方法已在我们机构的100例患者中使用，其他机构的外科医生总共也在约130例患者中使用过。手术结果非常出色，这表明复杂的电生理标测系统并非必要，且结果并非因外科医生而异。
