What are the chances of success/or being cured from atrial fibrillation from this procedure?
Certainly the gold standard in years past for surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation was the COX MAZE-3 procedure for atrial fibrillation, which was a quite complex open heart operation that carried significant morbidity. Dr. Cox achieved approximately 94% success rate in conversion of patients to normal sinus rhythm. We try to replicate as much of what Dr. Cox did as we can using minimally invasive techniques and a microwave device. We have found that patients who have the highest rate of conversion to normal sinus rhythm are patients with paroxysmal (part-time) atrial fibrillation with normal or only slightly enlarged left atriums. We found that those patients have success rates with minimally invasive atrial fibrillation ablation of approximately 85-90%. Those that are least likely to be converted to normal sinus rhythm are patients that have permanent atrial fibrillation that have shown no signs of normal sinus rhythm for years and years. Also those that have massively enlarged
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