Figure 3. Estimation of the probability of atrial
tachyarrhythmias (ATAs) recurrence within ten years based on length of
time in atrial fibrillation prior to Cox-Maze IV (red dashed line) with
95% confidence intervals (solid blue lines).
Table 1: Baseline Patient Characteristics. For patients that
had follow-up of at least 6 months or longer postoperatively,
characteristics were compared across rhythm outcomes. There were no
significant differences between groups by freedom from versus recurrence
of ATAs for any of these variables (alpha = 0.05).