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Does Surgical Ablation offer additional benefit over Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion?

Does Surgical Ablation offer additional benefit over Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion?

Update: 2023-06-03
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Dr. Hunter Mehaffey is an outstanding Cardiac Surgeon and Clinical Researcher at the West Virginia University. He recently presented at the AATS 2023 meeting and published in JTCVS a large Medicare analysis of over 100,000 cardiac surgery patients with pre-existing AF in attempts to answer the question if surgical ablation confers additional clinical advantage over LAAO alone. This is definitely worth a listen!
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Does Surgical Ablation offer additional benefit over Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion?

Does Surgical Ablation offer additional benefit over Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion?

Dr. Hunter Mehaffey & Dr. Armin Kiankhooy (host)