Between February 2003 and January 2004 a microwave-modified Maze III procedure was performed as an associated procedure in nine patients in chronic atrial fibrillation undergoing surgery for heart ...

St. Louis, Oct. 18, 2004 -- A minimally invasive approach to curing the most common heart rhythm abnormality, atrial fibrillation, takes half the time of the traditional surgical procedure but is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pioneering research carried out by Cox et al. [4] on the electrophysiopathology of AF culminated in the development of the Maze III procedure, a surgical technique in which a series of incisions ...