Impact of Clinical Presentation and Surgeon Experience on the Decision to Perform Surgical Ablation Niv Ad, MD, Linda Henry, PhD, Sharon Hunt, MBA, Sari D. Holmes, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 763-769 (September 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.03.066 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Predicted probability by number of significant predictor variables (comorbidity score). Dashed line depicts the most experienced surgical ablation surgeon and solid line describes all other surgeons. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 763-769DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.03.066) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Return to normal sinus rhythm overall (black) and off antiarrhythmic drugs (gray) in the patients with surgical ablation. (AA = antiarrhythmic.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 763-769DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.03.066) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions