Thoracoscopic  left atrial appendage exclusion for treatment of atrial fibrillation.
Amiran Sh. Revishvili, Vadim A. Popov, Egor S. Malyshenko, Maksim M. Anishchenko, Sirarpi S.Petrosyan , Natalia V. Popova
 A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russia

 

AIM: Thoracoscopic techniques currently hold a leading position in the treatment of isolated forms of atrial fibrillation. Thoracoscopic  left atrial appendage exclusion is one of the stages in thoracoscopic treatment of AF.