Hybrid Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Better or Just Different?

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¹ Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: francis.marchlinski@uphs.upenn.edu.
² Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Francis Marchlinski et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2017 Apr.

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. 2017 Apr;3(4):350-352.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2016.12.020. Epub 2017 Mar 29.

¹ Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: francis.marchlinski@uphs.upenn.edu.
² Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Keywords: ablation; atrial fibrillation; hybrid; outcomes.

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Comparative Effectiveness of Hybrid Ablation Versus Endocardial Catheter Ablation Alone in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation.
Kress DC, Erickson L, Choudhuri I, Zilinski J, Mengesha T, Krum D, Sra J. Kress DC, et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2017 Apr;3(4):341-349. doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2016.10.010. Epub 2016 Dec 21. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2017. PMID: 29759446