Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation – “Wolf minimally invasive maze surgery”

The “Wolf Minimally Invasive Maze Surgery” is a minimally invasive cardiac surgery procedure proposed by Dr. Randall Wolf of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1999 and has been gradually perfected in clinical practice, Specifically, the procedure is performed by making three tiny incisions between the ribs on each side of the patient and using a bipolar radiofrequency device under thoracoscopic surveillance on the surface of the beating heart to isolate the origin of atrial fibrillation, i.e., the vestibular region of the pulmonary veins bilaterally. Removal of the left auricle, the primary source of blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation, will reduce the chance of stroke by more than 90%. The success rate of minimally invasive cardiac surgery for atrial fibrillation has been reported to be 90% according to international efficacy reports, and is a single treatment without the need for re-ablation and without radiation damage from X-rays, with an overall treatment cost of only about 50,000 RMB.