Reply to Squiers et al

Michał Pasierski^{1

2}, Jakub Batko^{2

3

4}, Piotr Suwalski¹, Mariusz Kowalewski^{1

2}; KROK Investigators

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland.
² Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, CAROL-Cardiothoracic Anatomy Research Operative Lab, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.

Michał Pasierski et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2024.

. 2024 Sep 2;66(3):ezae307.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezae307.

Michał Pasierski^{1

2}, Jakub Batko^{2

3

4}, Piotr Suwalski¹, Mariusz Kowalewski^{1

2}; KROK Investigators

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland.
² Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, CAROL-Cardiothoracic Anatomy Research Operative Lab, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.

No abstract available

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac surgery; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Mortality; Surgical ablation.

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Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: early survival benefit or residual confounding?
Squiers JJ, DiMaio JM, Schaffer JM. Squiers JJ, et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2024 Aug 2;66(2):ezae299. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezae299. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2024. PMID: 39120074 No abstract available.