Strategies in the Surgical Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Table 2

Summary of results obtained by radiofrequency ablation.

Study	𝑁	Lesion set	Type of AF and aetiology	Concomitant or lone surgery	Mean followup ± SD (months)	Freedom from AF at mean followup (%)	Overall mortality at last f/u (%)
Srivastava et al., 2008 [16]	160	Overall	Persistent >3 months Rheu matic	Concomitant	40
	40	Biatrial				62.5	10
	40	LA only				57.5	7.5
	40	PVI				67.5	10
	40	None				20.0	5
Wang et al., 2009 [17]	299	Overall	Permanent	Concomitant	28 ± 5	85.0	2.3
	149	LA+ cavotricuspid				85.2	1.3
	150	Biatrial				84.1	4.7
Chiappini et al., 2004 [18]	40	CM III	Chronic	Concomitant	16.5 ± 2.5	88.5 at last f/u	7.5
Beukema et al., 2008 [19]	285	Modified Maze (biatrial)	Permanent	Concomitant	43.6 ± 25.4	57.1 at last f/u	27.4%
Topkara et al., 2006 [20]		Endocardial 82.9%; epicardial 17.1%.; Variable lesion set	Paroxysmal	Concomitant and Lone	Last f/u 24 months	75.3	Not specified for RF only
	168		Persistent
			Lone