Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation: Reduction of Incidence in Thoracoscopic versus Open Lobectomy for Lung Cancer

Zaheer Ahmad Tahir, Azar Hussain, Mohammed Khalil, Syed Qadri, Ahmed Mostafa Habib, Mubarak Chaudhry and Mahmoud Loubani

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, UK

^*Correspondance to: Mahmoud Loubani 

 PDF  Full Text DOI: 10.25107/2474-1647.1913

Abstract

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia after thoracic surgery and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and has cost implications with increased length of hospital stay. This study aims to compare the incidence of post-operative atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients who had anatomical single lobectomy by Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) versus thoracotomy. To our knowledge, such a comparison has not been reported in the literature.

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Tahir ZA, Hussain A, Khalil M, Qadri S, Habib AM, Chaudhry M, et al. Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation: Reduction of Incidence in Thoracoscopic versus Open Lobectomy for Lung Cancer. Clin Surg. 2018; 3: 1913.