[HSF] Indications for maze with mitral surgery

[Prasanna Simha M]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mitch Lirtzman <drmitch at cox.net> wrote:
> Prasanna, you are such a good artist, (physician/ surgeon/ computer jock),
> would you mind?
Would I mind doing what ? The message has got truncated.
Prasanna
At 03:17 AM 3/2/2008, you wrote:
>  >The right atrial lesions are
>  >One from the SVC to IVC.
>  >Two from the previous lesion crossing the crista to the atrial incision.
>  >Three from the IVC  via the tricuspid isthmus to the tricuspid valve.
>  >Four Burn the mouth of the coronary sinus with the burn going in the
>  >mouth at the triangle of Koch
>  >Five Join the SVC_IVC lesion to the CS and then to the TV isthmic burn
>  >Six - from SVC to above the anteroseptal commissure of the tricuspid valve
>  >Seventh -  is to go from the RA incision over the RA appendage on to
>  >the dome of the LA keeping a 3mm gap over the SA nodal artery. I have
>  >omitted this when I have taken lesion 6 at times in redos with no
>  >difference in conversion rates so I think lesion 7 may be omitted.
>  >
>  >Prasanna
>  >
>  >On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, nand kejriwal <nkkejriwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Prasanna
>  > >
>  > >  What lesions do you create in the right atrium? Do you do just the CS
>  > mouth
>  > >  lesion or the full set including the one from SVC to IVC and another
>  > towards
>  > >  the TV, in all your cases.
>  > >
>  > >  Nand
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  On 3/2/08, Prasanna Simha M <prasannasimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > 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?
>  > >  > >
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>  > >  > >
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