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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion for Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021
The majority of embolic strokes in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation are caused by thrombi in the left atrial appendage. It is projected that strokes related to atrial fibrillation will markedly increase in the future unless effective ...
Hussam Suradi, Henry Huang, Hani Jneid   +2 more
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Aneurysm of the Right Atrial Appendage [PDF]

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2002
Atrial aneurysms involving the free wall or atrial appendage are rare entities in cardiology practice and may be associated with atrial arrhythmias or embolic phenomena. We review the literature and report a case of aneurysm of the right atrial appendage
Silvio Henrique Barberato, Márcia Ferreira Alves Barberato, Bianca Milanese Ávila, Sonia Perretto, Liliam do Rocio Gavazzoni Blume, Miguel Chamma Neto   +5 more
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The Left Atrial Appendage and Atrial Fibrillation—A Contemporary Review

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023
In patients with atrial fibrillation, the left atrial appendage may serve as the site of thrombus formation due to stasis that occurs within the appendage because of its shape and trabeculations.
Nida Latif, Irbaz Hameed, Ralf Martz Sulague   +2 more
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The Left Atrial Appendage Revised

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017
Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation is associated with a 4- to 5-fold strokes increase and may be responsible for 15% to 20% of all strokes in the elderly. In this scenario, the left atrial appendage thrombus would be the associated with 90% of cases.
Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora, Antonio Carlos Menardi, Andrea Carla Celotto, Agnes Afrodite S. Albuquerque, Hannah Miranda Araujo Chagas, Alfredo José Rodrigues   +5 more
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Primary Outcome Evaluation of a Next-Generation Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device

Circulation, 2021
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion provides an alternative to oral anticoagulation for thromboembolic risk reduction in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.

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Left atrial appendage occlusion.

Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2023
Prevention of stroke represents a goal of primary importance in health systems due to its associated morbidity and mortality. As several patient groups with increased stroke rates have been identified, multiple approaches have been developed and ...
D. Holmes, K. Korsholm, J. Rodés-Cabau, J. Saw, S. Berti, M. Alkhouli   +5 more
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Two‐Year Outcomes With a Next‐Generation Left Atrial Appendage Device: Final Results of the PINNACLE FLX Trial

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background The PINNACLE FLX (Protection Against Embolism for Non‐valvular AF [Atrial Fibrillation] Patients: Investigational Device Evaluation of the Watchman FLX LAA [Left Atrial Appendage] Closure Technology) trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of ...
Shephal K. Doshi, Saibal Kar, Ashish Sadhu, Rodney Horton, Jose Osorio, Christopher Ellis, James Stone, Manish Shah, Srinivas R. Dukkipati, Stuart Adler, Devi G. Nair, Jamie Kim, Oussama Wazni, Matthew J. Price, David R. Holmes, Robert Shipley, Thomas Christen, Dominic J. Allocco, Vivek Y. Reddy   +18 more
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Simultaneous Left and Right Atrial Appendage Thrombi on Cardiac Computed Tomography [PDF]

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We report an unusual case of simultaneous left and right atrial appendage thrombosis identified on contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography angiography (CT) during pre-procedural evaluation in a patient with permanent atrial fibrillation and ...
Mustafa Mohamed, Guillaume Fahrni
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SCAI/HRS Expert Consensus Statement on Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Closure

Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, 2023
Exclusion of the left atrial appendage to reduce thromboembolic risk related to atrial fibrillation was first performed surgically in 1949. Over the past 2 decades, the field of transcatheter endovascular left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) has rapidly ...
J. Saw, David R. Holmes, J. Cavalcante, James V. Freeman, A. Goldsweig, C. Kavinsky, I. Moussa, T. Munger, M. Price, M. Reisman, M. Sherwood, Z. Turi, D. Wang, B. Whisenant   +13 more
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion during Cardiac Surgery to Prevent Stroke.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
BACKGROUND Surgical occlusion of the left atrial appendage has been hypothesized to prevent ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, but this has not been proved.
R. Whitlock, É. Belley-Côté, D. Paparella, J. Healey, K. Brady, Mukul Sharma, W. Reents, P. Budera, Andony J Baddour, P. Fila, P. Devereaux, A. Bogachev-Prokophiev, A. Boening, K. Teoh, G. Tagarakis, M. Slaughter, A. Royse, S. McGuinness, M. Alings, P. Punjabi, C. Mazer, R. Folkeringa, A. Colli, Á. Avezum, J. Nakamya, K. Balasubramanian, J. Vincent, P. Voisine, A. Lamy, S. Yusuf, S. Connolly   +30 more
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