The first Maze procedure
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Fading magic of maze procedure Pankaj
I read with interest a recent article by Reston and Shuhaiber [1] where they have analysed the reported clinical outcome of maze-related surgical procedures for intractable atrial fibrillation (AF). I congratulate them for this excellent meta-analysis [1]. I would like to add a few comments. Maze procedure is an excellent example of a technique which was grabbed by an impatient scientific commu...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.12.012