title: Innovative monolateral approach for closed-chest atrial fibrillation surgery.
abstract: Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation recently gained new popularity since the introduction of different energy sources as an alternative to the original cut-and-sew technique. Recently an innovative approach for closed-chest thoracoscopic epicardial pulmonary veins isolation has been described for patients suffering from lone atrial fibrillation. Nevertheless in an effort to further reduce the invasiveness of closed-chest atrial fibrillation surgery, we developed a novel monolateral approach for thoracoscopic arrhythmia surgery.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy. gianluigi_bisleri@katamail.com
authors.forename: Gianluigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bisleri
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muneretto
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*