Background: There was limited evidence on the clinical benefits of the concomitant Cox-Maze procedure with aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with atrial fibrillation. This study aimed to ...

Feb. 12, 2007 -- Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke. Heart surgeons at Washington University School of ...

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 ...

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 ...