Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension, The Glomerular Disease Center at Northwell Health Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, 100 Community Drive, 2nd floor, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA. Electronic address: Psharma7@northwell.edu.
Selzman Kidney Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, 7200 Cambridge Street, 8th Floor Suite 8B, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@NephDr.
Persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) causes atrial remodeling, which causes myocardial fibrosis and micro-reentry. Fibrosis may reduce wave voltage and micro-reentry may enhance the dominant frequency ...
In 138 consecutive patients who underwent mitral valve surgery and a modified Cox-Maze III procedure for persistent AF in Nagoya University in 2002-2018, 96 (70%) were successfully cardioverted (group...
Group F showed a significantly larger LA diameter, better LVEF, lower F-wave voltage, higher DF, and longer duration of AF. The cut-off values were as follows: LA diameter, 56 mm; EF, 64.5%; F-wave vo...
The DF of the F-wave is a useful predictor of procedural success after the Maze procedure in addition to the voltage of F-wave....
A 34-year-old woman presented with palpitations and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). Workup revealed anterior mitral valve prolapse with severe mitral regurgitation. She was referred for surgical ...
Left atrial calcification (LAC) is found in long-lasting rheumatic valvular disease and is almost always accompanied by atrial fibrillation (AF). In the presence of LAC, endoatriectomy is required whe...
The medical records of 18 consecutive patients who underwent combined endoatriectomy and maze procedure were analyzed retrospectively....
Accompanying operations were mitral valve replacement (n = 16) and commissurotomy (n = 2). There was 1 operative death from sepsis following mediastinitis. When patients were divided into "broad" (n =...
The maze procedure combined with endoatriectomy seems technically feasible with acceptable long-term rhythm outcomes if the LAC extent is limited....
Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is a newly discovered condition associated with longstanding atrial fibrillation. This retrospective study aimed to analyze the outcomes of the maze proce...
Patients who underwent mitral valve repair/replacement with a maze procedure at a hospital (July 2012-August 2021) were included. We excluded patients aged below 18 years undergoing concomitant corona...
We included 35 patients with AFMR and 50 patients with DMR. Patient characteristics and postoperative outcomes were not significantly different between the two groups. Long-term outcomes revealed no s...
AFMR showed excellent mitral valve surgery outcomes, similar to DMR, but had a significantly higher risk of pacemaker insertion for SSS after the maze procedure....
To compare mitral valve (MV) repair and concomitant maze procedure with catheter ablation in treating patients with atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR)....
We retrospectively identified 126 patients with AFMR from January 2012 to December 2015. Of these patients, 60 patients underwent MV repair and concomitant maze procedure, and 66 patients received cat...
There was no significant difference in baseline and echocardiographic characteristics, in-hospital mortality, and other adverse events postoperatively between two groups. The surgical group was associ...
Our results suggest that for the treatment of AFMR with persistent or long-standing persistent AF and moderate-severe MR, MV repair and concomitant maze procedure may achieve a better outcome than cat...
Atrial fibrillation is one of the common complications of mitral valve disease. Currently, in the absence of freezing equipment, it's still impossible to fully conduct a minimally invasive Cox-maze IV...
We analyzed the clinical data of 28 patients who underwent thoracoscopic minimally invasive mitral valve full maze surgery in our hospital from October 2021 to September 2022; 13 patients were male an...
For these subjects, the median cardiopulmonary bypass time was 169 (109.75-202.75) minutes, aortic cross-clamping time was 106 (77.75-125.50) minutes, and ventilator assistance time was 6.5 (0-10) hou...
The minimally invasive cut-and-sew technique for electrical isolation of left pulmonary veins can improve sinus conversion rate of patients suffering from both mitral valve disease and atrial fibrilla...
It is unknown whether early atrial tachyarrhythmia (ATA) recurrence occurring within 3 months after the Maze procedure predicts late ATA recurrence.Methods and Results: This study involved 610 patient...
A significant proportion of patients undergoing repair of congenital mitral valve disease will require a subsequent reoperation. During somatic growth, mitral valve repair is preferable to replacement...
The management of an enlarged left atrium (LA) in mitral valve (MV) disease with atrial fibrillation (AF) is still being debated. It has been postulated that a reduction in LA size may improve patient...
A systematic review was performed and all available literature to May 2022 was included. The primary endpoint was analysis of early and late mortality and rhythm outcomes. Secondary outcomes included ...
The search strategy yielded 2,808 potentially relevant articles, and 19 papers were eventually included. The pooled estimated rate of 30-day mortality was 3.76% (95% CI 2.52-5.56). The incidence rate ...
In enlarged LA undergoing MV surgery, LAVR combined with AF ablation showed a trend of improved rhythm outcomes when compared with AF ablation without LAVR. Each LAVR technique has its advantages and ...
Although concomitant pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is used more frequently than the Cox-Maze procedure, which is currently the gold standard treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF), data on the compar...
We conducted a systematic review to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies comparing the mid-term mortality and recurrence of AF after concomitant Cox-Maze and PVI in p...
Medline, EMBASE databases, and the Cochrane Library were searched from 1987 up to March 2022 for studies comparing concomitant Cox-Maze and PVI. Additionally, a meta-analysis of RCTs was performed to ...
Three RCTs and three observational studies meeting the inclusion criteria were included in this systematic review with 790 patients in total (532 concomitant Cox-Maze and 258 PVI during MV surgery). M...
Concomitant Cox-Maze in AF patients undergoing MV surgery is associated with better mid-term freedom from AF when compared to PVI with comparable mid-term survival. Large observational studies suggest...
