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Faye Spencer, Boise, ID, April 2017

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Dr. Hugh G. Calkins, MD Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, MD

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Pierre Jaïs, M.D. Professor of Cardiology, Haut-Lévêque Hospital, Bordeaux, France

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Dr. Wilber Su,
Cavanaugh Heart Center, Phoenix, AZ

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Rome, Italy

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Walter Kerwin, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Hybrid Surgery/Ablation Topic of the Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting (MAM)

Published August 8, 2016

Background: The Hybrid approach is an unusual team effort and is complementary in nature: the Surgeon works on the outside of the patient’s heart and the Electrophysiologist on the inside of the same patient’s heart.

Hybrid Surgery/Ablation is becoming an increasingly important and effective strategy for highly symptomatic patients with persistent atrial fibrillation or longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation who have failed one or two catheter ablations, and for the patient with a significantly enlarged left atrium. (Read more: Hybrid Surgery/Ablation.)

Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting (MAM)

The goal of MAM is to improve interaction between cardiologists and surgeons through multiple examples of cooperation in dealing with Atrial Fibrillation. [Note: In the past, it’s been a rare occurrence for a surgeon to work with a cardiac electrophysiologist.]

Reporting for A-Fib.com

Cardiologists and surgeons from leading institutions in Europe, the US and Asia will discuss their experiences with hybrid simultaneous, hybrid stages, and multidisciplinary sequential approaches, and report their results.