By: Linda Wesseler

Linda Wesseler
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:51:47 +0000

Yet when I contacted them a few months ago to see if they have any surgeons performing the mini maze procedure for Atrial Fibrulation, also e-mailed them, they have not responded. The Dr who used to be at OSU who is one of the most experienced surgeons in the country doing that procedure is now at St Rita's in Lima, Ohio (unfortunately not in my Medicare Advantage insurance network, but OSU is). He had left OSU prior to this arrythmia center being funded, and was at a hospital in Norfolk, VA for a couple years before going to Lima. Wondering why no response from Wexner Center to my inquiry and why neither OSU nor Cleveland Clinic seem to have anyone experienced in doing this procedure, which has a much longer term success rate for non-relapse of AFib (even going off of all meds and blood thinners) than the catheter ablations typically done by electrophysiologists.