Atrial fibrillation (Afib) is one of the most common heart rhythm disorders, affecting millions worldwide. It occurs when the ...

The maze procedure has a success rate of 60 to 95%. It can be performed in a minimally invasive manner, as well as in an open chest surgery.

With the robotic maze procedure, the surgeon makes five tiny incisions the size of a dime in the patient's chest, inserting a small endoscopic robotic camera to view the outer surface of the heart.

Because it's surgery, there is a slim chance you might die from having a maze procedure. Results. Catheter ablation may not cure your AFib, but it will often relieve your symptoms.

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 ...

The Cox maze III operation (sometimes called the “cut-and-sew” maze operation) is a complex surgical procedure for the control of atrial fibrillation.

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 procedure ...

Heart surgeon Dr Patrick McCarthy performed a simplified maze procedure without a heart-lung bypass machine last week in a 71-year-old patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and coronary ...

The Cox-maze procedure was developed and first performed at Washington University in 1987. The final version of that procedure, called the Cox-maze III, ...

He had already done the Maze procedure in conjunction with open heart surgery. The surgeon told Luetkemeyer that he would bring another surgeon to UMC to watch him in the operating room.