Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Review

<table>The Cox-Maze III lesion pattern described by James Cox in 1991 with cut and sew technique. Arrows show the direction of electrical current flow from the SA node to the atrioventricular node. (SN: SA node, PV: pulmonary veins, AVN: atriventricular node, SVC: superior vena cava, IVC: inferior vena cava, LAA: left atrial appendage, and RAA: right atrial appendage).</table>

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Figure 2: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Review 