Totally Extracardiac Maze Procedure Performed on the Beating Heart Andy C. Kiser, MD, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, MD, PhD, W. Randolph Chitwood, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 1783-1785 (November 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.027 Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Illustration of the extracardiac Maze lesion pattern. Numbers designate ablation lines. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1783-1785DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.027) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Operative photo of the right atrium and right pulmonary veins demonstrates the extracardiac-Maze ablation lines 5 and 8. (PV = pulmonary vein; SVC = superior vena cava.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1783-1785DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.027) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Photo animation of the extracardiac Maze as seen from (a) the left pericardium, (b) the posterior left atrium, and (c) the right pericardium. The numbers designate ablation lines. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1783-1785DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.027) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions