From MAZE to ICE: new concepts and new technologies for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation
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From MAZE to ICE: new concepts and new technologies for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.
Curative treatment strategies for patients with atrial fibrillation were introduced in the late 1980s by Cox and co-coworkers. Following extensive animal experimental studies, the Maze procedure was developed and applied clinically. Subsequently, modifications of the initial surgical strategy were introduced, i.e. the Maze II and Maze III procedure. The efficacy of the Maze operation to establi...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0195-668X,1522-9645
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm511