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 ...

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 ...

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 new robotic maze procedure is an alternative to open-heart surgery. It's performed through tiny, keyhole incisions with fewer complications and a shorter hospital stay. Phillip Robinson ...

St Louis, MO - Replacing the traditional "cut-and-sew" incisions of the Cox-maze procedure with bipolar radiofrequency ablation lesions is safe and effective for controlling atrial fibrillation ...

St. Louis has been a hub for the Maze surgical procedure for atrial fibrillation since Dr. James Cox pioneered it at Washington University in 1987. Now it's being performed in faster, less ...

Chicago, IL - Heart surgeon Dr Patrick McCarthy (Northwestern Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, IL) successfully performed a simplified maze procedure without a heart-lung bypass machine last ...

Some individuals undergo a minimally invasive procedure, known as a mini-maze, where surgeons make smaller incisions to reduce the risk of complications. Recovery is generally much shorter and ...

Patients in the ablation group underwent further randomization to pulmonary-vein isolation or a biatrial maze procedure. All patients underwent closure of the left atrial appendage. The primary ...

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 ...