Strategies in the Surgical Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Table 1

Freedom from AF at final followup after “cut and sew” maze procedure.

Study	Type of procedure	Number of patients	Duration of followup (years) (Mean ± SD)	Freedom from AF at final followup (%)
Cox et al., 1996 [10]	Lone maze	178	8.5	93
Lönnerholm et al., 2008 [11]	Lone maze	52	4.7 ± 1.0	86.5
Prasad et al., 2003 [75]	Lone maze	98	5.4 ± 3.0	79.6 (no AAD*)
				95.9 (with AAD)
	Concomitant	86	5.4 ± 2.7	73.4 (no AAD)
				97.5 (with AAD)
Ad et al., 2009 [59]	Lone Maze	33	9.8 ± 7.7	91.0
	Lone and Concomitant maze	76	9.8 ± 7.7	84.0
Stulak et al., 2007 [7]	Concomitant	56	0.7 (2.75–7)**	92.0
Gaynor et al., 2005 [13]	Concomitant	253***	6.1 (0.5–15.5)**	92.2

*AAD: Anti Arrhythmic Drugs, **median (range), ***includes 33 Maze I, 16 Maze II, 197 Maze III, and 30 Maze IV.