Surgical cure of cardiac arrhythmia. 1969.
The first surgical procedure undertaken for the intended purpose of curing a patient with recurrent tachycardia was performed by Sealy in 1968, and the report of that operation was published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery in 1969. The first attempted accessory bundle ablation was successful, marked the beginning of cardiac arrhythmia surgery, and has set the standard against which other methods of arrhythmia control must be measured.
Lemmer
J H
JH
Department of Surgery, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City.
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