The final version of that procedure, called the Cox-maze III, has now been carried out on 250 patients at that institution since 1988, with more than 1500 patient-years of follow-up.

Long-term outcomes of concomitant Cox-Maze III procedure in patients with aortic valve diseases and preoperative atrial fibrillation. J Thorac Dis 2025;17 (1):369-378. doi: 10.21037/jtd-24-1223 ...

St Louis, MO - Placing an additional ablation set during the Cox-maze procedure, a short step that adds between 10 and 20 seconds to surgery performed to treat atrial fibrillation, significantly ...

When Cox devised the surgical procedure 20 years ago, he created the scar tissue "maze" using a series of 10 heart muscle incisions and suturing. According to data collected by The Cleveland ...

The Cox maze procedure described above -- 80 percent effective in walling off dangerously errant heart pulses -- has long been the gold standard for treating atrial fibrillation, or irregular ...

The Cox-maze procedure was developed at the University in 1987. In their latest clinical study, reported in the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University ...

Dr. Andy C. Kiser, chief of thoracic surgery at FirstHealth Moore Regional and a cardiologist, developed a new procedure called Ex Maze to accomplish the same thing as Cox Maze, but less invasively.

2.1.3 Conservative treatments include medication, electrical cardioversion to control the heart rhythm, and anticoagulants to prevent the formation of blood clots. The conventional surgical approach, ...

The procedure included a complete bi-atrial lesion set on a 71 year old male patient having persistent atrial fibrillation for 5 years and concomitant arterial bypass grafting using bilateral IMA.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The "mini-Maze" is a minimally invasive version of the Cox-Maze procedure that scars the heart for those with atrial fibrillation, says a U.S. expert.

The Cox-maze procedure was developed at the University in 1987. In their latest clinical study, reported in the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University ...