Does epicardial left atrial cryoablation combined with mitral valve surgery eliminate pre-operative permanent atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery?
Adding epicardial left atrial cryoablation to mitral valve surgery is significantly more effective at eliminating permanent atrial fibrillation than surgery alone.
This first prospective randomized study showed that combining MVS with epicardial LA cryoablation is significantly better in eliminating pre-operative permanent AF than MVS alone.
Blomström‐Lundqvist et al. (Wed,) studied this question.