Maze operation is done in which of the following condition?
A. AF
B. Complete heart block
C. Ebstein anomaly
D. Truncus arteriosus
A. AF
B. Complete heart block
C. Ebstein anomaly
D. Truncus arteriosus
Ans.
A. AF
Surgical ablation of AF is typically
performed at the time of other cardiac valve or coronary artery surgery and,
less commonly, as a stand-alone procedure. The Cox surgical Maze procedure is
designed to interrupt all macro-reentrant circuits that might potentially
develop in the atria, thereby precluding the ability of the atria to
fibrillate. In an attempt to simplify the operation, the multiple incisions of
the traditional Cox-Maze procedure have been replaced with linear lines of
ablation and pulmonary vein isolation using a variety of energy sources.
