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Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Reaching More Patients Every Day. [PDF]

JACC Case Rep
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Cabrera JÁ, González-Casal D, Sánchez-Quintana D.   +2 more
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Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Closure

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2023
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia worldwide, placing a large population at risk for potentially disabling ischemic strokes, yet an estimated 50% of eligible patients cannot tolerate or are contraindicated to receive oral anticoagulation ...
Gordon X. Wong, Gagan D. Singh
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Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices

Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, 2014
Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk for thromboembolic stroke five-fold. The left atrial appendage (LAA) has been shown to be the main source of thrombus formation in the majority of strokes associated with AF.
Jorge Romero, Irving E. Perez, Andrew Krumerman, Mario J. Garcia, Richard J. Lucariello   +4 more
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The effect of the pericardial patching exclusion technique for left atrial appendage closure on postoperative reopening rate [PDF]

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Background The left atrial appendage (LAA) is the primary source of cardiogenic embolism in atrial fibrillation patients. Traditional LAA closure methods have shown suboptimal clinical outcomes.
Qinpu Wang, Yijing Su, Jiajun Zhong, Jianan Li, Xinlei Ren, Junze Xuan, Weicong Huang, Jue Wang   +7 more
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Endocardial obliterative left atrial appendage closure by inverted purse-string plicationCentral MessagePerspective [PDF]

JTCVS Techniques
Objective: To describe an endocardial obliterative left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) technique using inverted appendage purse-string plication added to 2-layer orifice closure and to evaluate anatomic and clinical outcomes in minimally invasive and ...
Yoshitsugu Nakamura, MD, PhD, Taisuke Nakayama, MD, PhD, Miho Kuroda, MD, Yuto Yasumoto, MD, Chihiro Shirai, ME   +4 more
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Transjugular left atrial appendage closure

REC: Interventional Cardiology (English Ed.)
A 52-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation, thrombocytopenia, and severe gastrointestinal bleeding while on several anticoagulants was referred for left atrial appendage closure.
Juan Gabriel Córdoba-Soriano, Juan Carlos García-López, Jesús Jiménez-Mazuecos   +2 more
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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, Dee Dee Wang, B. Whisenant   +13 more
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Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure [PDF]

Vnitřní lékařství, 2020
Stroke is one of the most severe complications of atrial fibrillation. Oral anticoagulation is the first choice therapy in prevention of cardiac embolic events. Particularly in patients with the history of serious bleeding, oral anticoagulation may be contraindicated.
Marek, Hozman, Pavel, Osmančík
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Left Atrial Appendage Closure: A Current Overview Focused on Technical Aspects and Different Approaches

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, Marta Martin, Massimiliano Marini, Stefano Branzoli, Giulia Casagranda, Daniele Muser, Giovanni B. Forleo, Alessio Gasperetti, Massimo Di Marco, Stefano Guarracini, Roberto Bonmassari, Patrizio Mazzone, Antonio M Calafiore, Michele Di Mauro   +13 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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