There are three kinds: Maze procedure. Your doctor will usually do this while you're having open heart surgery for another problem, like a bypass or valve replacement. They make small cuts in the ...

What Is the Maze Procedure (Surgical Ablation)? If you have an irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), you may need surgery to restore your normal heart rhythm. This is called ...

In particular, the maze procedure can be performed safely and cures the majority of patients with atrial fibrillation. Over the last two decades, the introduction of new ablation technologies has ...

There’s also a specific type of open ablation surgery doctors use to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib) called a Maze procedure. We’ll go over that one in more detail in the next section.

Atrial fibrillation causes an irregular heart rhythm. The maze procedure is a surgical intervention that tries to solve the arrhythmia by interrupting the multiple electric impulses causing the ...

The present study evaluated risk factors related to persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) at discharge (AF-d) and recurrent atrial fibrillation (rAF) and all-cause death after the maze IV procedure. Two ...

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China Objective: The objective of this study was to observe the safety and efficacy of ...

The maze procedure is an operation to treat atrial fibrillation (AFib or AF), a type of irregular heartbeat. What is a maze procedure? The maze procedure creates scars in strategic places in the atria ...

Maze surgery, or surgical ablation, is a procedure commonly recommended to treat an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) when other methods such as medication, cardioversion therapy (electric ...