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A Misleading Left Atrial Appendage
JACC: Case Reports, 2023 Left atrial appendage collapse is a relatively unusual echocardiographic finding. Although in post-cardiac surgery patients it may be an early sign of cardiac tamponade, and pericardiocentesis should be discussed, a conservative approach may be followed in cases secondary to viral infection without confusing it with a left atrial appendage thrombus ...
Alexandros Kourtinos, MD +3 more
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020 Objective: The objective was to evaluate the application of transesophageal echocardiography, left atrial appendage angiography, cardiac computed tomography angiography, and three-dimensional reconstruction model in the left atrial appendage occlusion ...
Huang Hao Lei +4 more
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Left atrial appendage occlusion.
International journal of preventive medicine, 2013 Left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion is a treatment strategy to prevent blood clot formation in atrial appendage. Although, LAA occlusion usually was done by catheter-based techniques, especially percutaneous trans-luminal mitral commissurotomy (PTMC), it can be done during closed and open mitral valve commissurotomy (CMVC, OMVC) and mitral valve ...
Ahmad Mirdamadi +3 more
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Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Several studies in literature have shown that 90% of emboli related to non-valvular atrial fibrillation originate from left atrial appendage. Percutaneous closure or surgical exclusion of left atrial appendage in patients with high bleeding and high ...
Fabrizio Guarracini +13 more
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Juxtaposition of the Atrial Appendages [PDF]
Circulation, 1973 Juxtaposition of the atrial appendages refers to that condition in which both atrial appendages or one and part of the other lie beside each other and to one side of the great arterial vessels. The appendages lying to the left of the great vessels (left-sided juxtaposition) is considerably more common than the state in which the appendages lie to the ...
Y, Charuzi +3 more
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Cardiac CT evaluation of left atrial diverticulum and accessory appendage
The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2022 Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, location, size, and morphological features of the left atrial accessory appendage and diverticulum with cardiac computed tomography.
Sadullah Şimşek +2 more
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Atrial tachycardia originating from the right atrial appendage has a higher probability of failure of catheter ablation. Here we report a case of a 13-year-old boy with incessant tachycardia, complicated by heart enlargement, and heart failure ...
Li Luo +3 more
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Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion for Atrial Fibrillation [PDF]
Heart Failure Clinics, 2014 Percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure is being increasingly used as a treatment strategy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who have contraindications to anticoagulants. Several approaches and devices have been developed in the last few years, each with their own unique set of advantages and disadvantages.
Faisal F, Syed +3 more
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Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2022 The aim of this study is to identify factors influencing the likelihood of the thrombus dissolution in the left atrial appendage in patients with persistent nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Material and methods.
E. S. Mazur +3 more
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The missing left atrial appendage [PDF]
Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 2012 A 34 year old man underwent a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) prior to implantation of a biventricular ICD and DC cardioversion, to exclude left atrium and left atrial appendage thrombus. He had a history of repaired tetralogy of Fallot as a child, Stickler syndrome, atrial flutter and was status post recent mitral valve replacement, pulmonary ...
Niamh M, Kilcullen +4 more
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