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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion for Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation [PDF]
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 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 ...
Fareed Moses S. Collado +7 more
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Left atrial appendage occlusion [PDF]
EuroIntervention, 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 implemented: oral anticoagulation (OAC) for patients with atrial fibrillation, surgical and percutaneous ...
Holmes, David R +5 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 ...
Ahmad Mirdamadi +3 more
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Massive hemoptysis after left atrial appendage occlusion in a patient with atrial fibrillation and left atrial appendage thrombus: a case report [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular DisordersWe report the case of an 86-year-old male with atrial fibrillation and a persistent left atrial appendage thrombus despite prolonged oral anticoagulation therapy.
Qiqi Jin +3 more
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Percutaneous interventions in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation: Left atrial ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion [PDF]
, 2017 Peer ...
Lebedev, D. (Dmitry) +2 more
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Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion [PDF]
Cardiology, 2020 n ...
Sambola, Antonia +2 more
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Short and Intermediate Term Outcomes of the Convergent Procedure: Initial Experience in a Tertiary Referral Center [PDF]
, 2020 PURPOSE: The Convergent procedure is a hybrid, multidisciplinary treatment for symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) consisting of minimally invasive surgical epicardial ablation and percutaneous/catheter endocardial ablation.
Hirsh, Jeffrey +4 more
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JACC: Case Reports, 2020 A patient with a left atrial appendage occlusion device underwent mitral valve replacement. Later, the patient developed a left atrial thrombosis with thromboembolic myocardial infarction caused by a dislocation of the occlusion device.
Moritz B. Immohr, MD +3 more
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Diseases, 2023 Left atrial appendage occlusion affects systemic coagulation parameters, leading to additional patient-related benefits. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in coagulation factor changes 6 months after epicardial left atrial ...
Jakub Batko +11 more
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device Placement Aborted Because of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
JACC: Case Reports, 2023 Left atrial appendage occlusion device (LAAO) implantation among patients who have had coronary artery bypass grafting can be challenging. We report a case of scheduled LAAO device implantation that was aborted due to the anomalous course of a bypass ...
John Yin, MD +5 more
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