Atrial Fibrillation & Maze Procedure with Dr. Harold Roberts

Atrial fibrillation is a dangerous abnormal heart rhythm that can cause symptoms including fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath and heart palpitations. In addition, patients with atrial fibrillation are 5 times more likely to have a stroke, according to the American Heart Association. Learn about AFib and the Maze Procedure for patients with abnormal heartbeats from Dr. Harold Roberts, heart surgeon at the WVU Heart & Vascular Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia, in this video. The Maze operation is a surgical ablation that takes about 20 minutes to perform during a heart valve repair, heart valve replacement, and/or coronary artery disease procedure. (Video posted on May 20, 2018)