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 (AF), ...

August 28, 2012 (Munich, Germany) — Surgical ablation when added to cardiac and/or valvular surgery in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) results in significantly more patients being in normal ...

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 ...

In 1987, Dr. James L. Cox performed the first maze procedure for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation. 1 Previous efforts at surgical correction were not uniformly successful, and some procedures ...

The field of atrial fibrillation is evolving rapidly. Although a medical rhythm control strategy has not proven to be beneficial for survival, new interventional therapies have improved the rate of ...

Dr. Benedict Taylor, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Saint Alphonsus, shares warning signs to look out for and discusses the ...

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