%0 Journal Article %T The inadvertent compounding of misconceptions regarding the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation in mitral valve patients %A Cox, James L. %A McCarthy, Patrick M. %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2019 %B 2019 %9 %! The inadvertent compounding of misconceptions regarding the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation in mitral valve patients %K %X We thank the editors of the Journal of Thoracic Disease for inviting us to provide editorial commentary on a paper by Blackstone et al . that was published earlier this year in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1). %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/31407 %P S1919-S1922 %@ 2077-6624