AFX Procedure for Afib

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Posted by Henry Alken on April 22, 2002 at 17:47:31:

I had never heard of the AFX procedure either. So I searched a little bit on Google.
I found this:

AFx aims for $1B market and beyond
Leslie Mladinich

Dinesh Mody, president and CEO of AFx Inc., understands that many medical professionals may think the "x" in his company's name stands for care.

But Mody sees it as something else.

"I like to think of it as an `x' for expedition," Mody said, sitting at a table displaying the microwave radiation instrument that the Fremont company hopes will distinguish it in the saturated world of nifty new medical devices.

AFx has created a microwave surgical ablation system ­ a long name for a 12-inch device resembling a miniature golf club that enables surgeons to circumvent more arduous open heart surgery. By passing the wand's silicon-encased microwave reflector over a beating heart, a physician can kill bad cells that cause blocked electrical pathways.

Dharan said AFx's ablation system's primary advantage is that it can be used on a beating heart. Although doctors have to cut into the chest to expose the heart, they don't have to cut tissue in the heart.

Doctors pass the wand over the areas where bad cells impair the heart's function. Killing those cells eliminates aberrant pathways that transport electrical impulses, leaving only normal pathways.

Henry's comment:
Since they have to cut into the chest and expose the heart, it doesn't sound like a "one day procedure" to me.

Henry Alken

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