Table 1.

Literature data

Author	N	Operation time (min)	Bleeding (ml)	Suture mode	Chest tube stay (days)	Postoperative hospital stay (days)	Morbidity	Mortality	3 months recurrence
Schmid et al. 2011 [26]	1	364	–	Interrupted and running	9	15	0	0	0
Nakamura et al. 2013 [27]	1	403	170	Interrupted	2	–	0	0	0
Pan et al. 2015 [28]	1	245	200	Running	5	10	0	0	0
Cerfolio 2015 [29]	8	–	–	Interrupted and running	–	–	AF 1	0	0
Zhao et al. 2016 [30]	1	–	100	Running	3	7	0	0	0
Lin et al. 2016 [31]	6	436.7 ± 200.2#	750 ± 1005#	Running	5.3 ± 4.5#	11.3 ± 9.1#	Stenosis 1 pneumonia 1	0	1
Pan et al. 2016 [32]	21	158.4 ± 42.0#	157.1 ± 97.8#	Running	9.0 ± 8.2#	10.7 ± 7.6#	19%*	1	0
Qiu et al. 2016 [33]	1	240	150	Running	3	6	0	0	0

N number, AF atrial fibrillation

^#Data are presented as the mean ± SD

*Data are presented as n (%)