Anatomical caveats in totally thoracoscopic maze ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion procedures: Insights and surgical implications from a case series

Natalia Ogorzelec¹, Bartosz Mruk², Michał Farkowski³, Mariusz Kowalewski^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
² Center of Radiological Diagnostics, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
³ Department of Cardiology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁵ Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁶ Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁷ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.

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Natalia Ogorzelec et al. Kardiol Pol. 2025.

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. 2025;83(7-8):897-899.

doi: 10.33963/v.phj.105716. Epub 2025 Apr 25.

Natalia Ogorzelec¹, Bartosz Mruk², Michał Farkowski³, Mariusz Kowalewski^{4

5

6

7}, Piotr Suwalski¹

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
² Center of Radiological Diagnostics, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
³ Department of Cardiology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁵ Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁶ Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.
⁷ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl.

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