Atrial fibrillation surgery in nonrheumatic mitral valve disease

The onset of AF is a relative indication for mitral valve surgery in those with mitral valve dysfunction [7, 16]. In most instances, however, mitral valve surgery alone does not ablate AF [9–11, 16]. A prospective, randomized study of patients with permanent AF demonstrated that only 4.5% of patients returned to sinus rhythm with mitral valve ................
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