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Editorial
. 2020 Mar 15:303:54-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.12.048. Epub 2019 Dec 27.

Catheter ablation or surgery to eliminate longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation

Rajan L Shah  1 , Junaid A B Zaman  2 , Sanjiv M Narayan  3
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Editorial

Catheter ablation or surgery to eliminate longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation

Rajan L Shah et al. Int J Cardiol. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest RS and JZ report no disclosures. Dr. Narayan reports Consulting Compensation from Up to Date, Abbott Laboratories, American College of Cardiology Foundation (all modest); speaking/consulting fees from Medtronic, Inc. (modest), St. Jude Medical (modest); Intellectual Property Rights from University of California Regents and Stanford University. Dr. Narayan is supported, in part, by grants from the National Institutes of Health (HL103800, HL83359).

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Fig. 1.
A. Mechanisms of AF initiation and maintenance (posterior view of left atrium, right atrium (RA), and four pulmonary veins (PV)). B. Convergent hybrid ablation lesion set: gray = stage one, epicardial posterior wall ablation; pink = stage two, endocardial pulmonary vein isolation.
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