therapy for atrial fibrilatioin "theora k scopy 5 boxes"

[Bari2000]

i have atrial fibrilation for 25 years. i did 3 ablation no result.i heard about new procieder calld "theora k scopy 5 boxes"ZCB*MTcyOTk0MTgzMC4yLjEuMTcyOTk0MjkyNi42MC4wLjAwho hear about this probcrside?

[Cliff_G]

I found a paper titled "The Five-Box Thoracoscopic Maze Procedure" by John Sirak et al in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery dated Sept 2010, which is free to download. Never heard of that variation of the Maze myself but that paper might get you started. Figure 4 shows the five box pattern.

[Bari2000 in reply to Cliff_G]

thanks I found this also somewhere in facebook but I didn’t find any medical center that use this kind of procider It’s very its very interesting I’ll find the post in facebook and send a link

[Cliff_G in reply to Bari2000]

I've now had the ok from the Admins to post the link to that paper:

annalsthoracicsurgery.org/a...

In terms of finding a centre that does it, I think that you'd need to start talking simply about the Maze procedure and bring up the 5-box method then.

Perhaps someone with more experience of the Maze can post.

[Bari2000]

thank im now looking for medical center that have the knoewlage to do the maze

[ozziebob]

Are you familiar with Dr Wolf in Houston, the inventor of the Wolf minimaze?

wolfminimaze.com

And he has a colleague in Tokyo, Dr Ohtsuka, doing a similar procedure.