Posted by Carl Plaskett on July 31, 2004 at 11:21:50:
In Reply to: CLEVELAND CLINIC posted by THOMAS C.GLASS on July 29, 2004 at 11:19:03:
Tom: I would guess that Dr. Gillinov and his team are every bit as skilled as Dr. McCarthy is in his new position at Northwestern.
If travel is a problem, I would recommend the most convenient of the several outstanding surgeons listed under "surgeons" at the top of our Home page.
I WOULD suggest him asking any of these surgeons about their success rate and if they have changed the procedure from what they did in the past, since some of the less invasive procedures have not been done enough to accurately compare them to the "gold standard" Cox Maze III, which most of them did with 90-95% success rates.