Thoracic Key

Over the past two decades, many different surgical ablation procedures have been proposed to replace the Maze procedure, but the stand-alone Maze procedure for lone atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the…

Only approximately 60% of patients undergoing mitral valve (MV) surgery who have preoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) undergo concomitant ablation of their AF in addition to their MV surgery. This chapter…