[HSF] Indications for maze with mitral surgery

[Prasanna Simha M]

I ablate the mitral Isthmus and I burn the coronary sinus mouth from
the RA as a part of the biatrial set and believe that both are very
important. When I did the comparative study the "epicardial right +
endocardial left" was designed with elimination of the CS mouth lesion
and the superior RA to TV lesion being omitted.The isthmic burn was
attemopted in that set by burning externally from IVC to TV. The left
atrial set included the mitral isthmic lesion.
Lesser mazes did give a lower conversion rate.

One of my friends from PGI Chandigarh gave eMAZE as the topic for the
thesis of his postgraduate student and his findings also confirmed
that an abbreviated set of lesions has a lower conversion rate.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:56 AM,  <Hgrmd at aol.com> wrote:
> Prasanna,
>   Do you ablate the mitral isthmus and the coronary sinus with the  cautery?
>
>  Hal
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Prasanna Simha M