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 ...

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 ...

There were six women and three men (mean age of 60 ± 9.4 years, range 46-70 years). The mean time since the documented onset of the arrhythmia was 7.2 ± 6.0 years (range 1-20 years). One patient, who ...