{"id":1043,"date":"2010-01-26T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/01\/26\/maze-procedure-video-niv-ad-inova\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:03:51","slug":"maze-procedure-video-niv-ad-inova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/01\/26\/maze-procedure-video-niv-ad-inova\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Is The MAZE Procedure?&#8221; Asks Tammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an interesting email from Tammy that touches on heart valve surgery, atrial fibrillation and the MAZE procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy writes, &#8220;Adam &#8211; Like a couple of your readers (Mark, Patrick and Anita), my doctor has suggested that I need a combo operation that includes a mitral valve repair due to regurg and a Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation. I&#8217;m just starting to do my research and was wondering if you have any videos about the Maze procedure. Thanks, Tammy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, I&#8217;ve noticed that several patients are discussing the MAZE procedure in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">Patient Community<\/a>. That said, here is a great video with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gerdisch-Indianapolis-Indiana.php\">Dr. Marc Gerdisch <\/a>about atrial fibrillation and the MAZE procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSUwxblb7aQ?si=gNOJJFdpEjLVRQ5S\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more at our new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\">AFib &amp; Heart Valve Education Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this video helped Tammy (and perhaps you) learn more about the MAZE procedure and heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Related Link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/04\/28\/mitral-afib-surgery-mccarthy\/\">Patient Story: Edward Clinton Gets Successful MAZE Procedure and Mitral Valve Repair<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41368,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/41368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}