Atrial Appendage
Echocardiographic assessment of Left Atrial Appendage function in patients with Mitral Stenosis by Tissue Doppler Velocity Imaging.
... addition, atrial fibrillation and left atrial spontaneous echo contrast have been associated with increased risk of cardiogenic embolism in MS Gaswami et al prospectively investigated various clinical and ...
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Early Experience Using a Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
... Fig. 2. Intra-procedural TEE images before (A, B and C) and after (D) deployment of LAA occlusion device. Diameter of LAA ostium and depth of LAA were measured from 4 different angles of TEE images to determine the ...
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Diagnose the Size of Left Atrial Appendage for Watchman Device
... Nowadays Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) has been highly epidemic that is a heart condition causes the heart in an irregular rhythm and can increase the risk of ...Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) which is a ...
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The Morphology of Left Atrial Appendage Lobes: A Novel Characteristic Naming Scheme Derived through Three Dimensional Cardiac Computed Tomography
... The left atrial appendage (LAA) remains a medical enigma; the morphology of this structure is poorly unders- tood. The LAA is a muscular pouch connected to the left atrium (LA). The LAA has a complex, ...
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Impact of B-type natriuretic peptide level on the risk of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a prospective study
... [4]. Atrial dysfunction is an established risk factor for thrombus formation in NVAF patients and BNP has been shown to originate from dysfunctional and stressed atrial myocadium in these patients [5 – ...
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Correlation between mitral annular systolic velocity and left atrial appendage function in mitral stenosis.
... left atrial appendage ...with atrial fibrillation as well as in sinus ...left atrial appendage. This is due to the dilation of left atrial appendage and left atrium and ...
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Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion: patient selection and perspectives
... nonvalvular atrial fibrillation are extremely ...left atrial appendage occlusion was designed to fulfill the unmet clinical expectations and possibly constitutes an alternative to anticoagulation ...
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CONGENITAL PARTIAL PERICARDIAL DEFECT WITH HERNIATION OF THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE
... A 40 year old woman was admitted to the hospital because of episodes of coughing of three months duration. There were no obvious precipitating factors and no history of cardiovascular disease could be obtained. On ...
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device: Evaluation of Surgical Implant Success and in Vivo Corrosion Performance
... Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a well-known cardiac arrhyth- mia and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, often from thromboembolic events originating in the left atrial appendage ...
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Original Article Efficacy and safety of dabigatran and dual antiplatelet therapy after left atrial appendage occlusion with the Watchman device
... Left atrial appendage occlusion: The operation was performed under general anaesthesia with TEE monitoring according to our previous study ...right atrial pressures were measured. After successful ...
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Congenital giant left atrial appendage aneurysm: a case report
... Congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm (LAAA) is a rare cardiac malformation that has been reported occa- sionally since its first description in 1960 [1]. Despite the congenital cause, clinical symptoms ...
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Epicardial delivery of autologous atrial appendage micrografts during coronary artery bypass surgery—safety and feasibility study
... autologous atrial appendage tissue micrografts in terms of success in completing the delivery of the transplant to the myocardium in conjunc- tion with cardiac surgery in the operating room as well as in ...
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Original Article Changes in CD11b and CD18 genes in right atrial appendage of patients with chronic atrial fibrillation
... right atrial appendage (RAA) of patients suffering from chronic atrial fibrillation ...right atrial diameter (RAD), ventricular septal thickness (VST), left ventricular end diastolic dimension ...
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Novel stroke risk reduction in atrial fibrillation: left atrial appendage occlusion with a focus on the Watchman closure device
... Abstract: Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains an important clinical problem with severe complica- tions such as stroke, which especially harms those with risk factors as calculated by the CHADS 2 or CHA 2 DS 2 ...
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The value of diastolic function parameters in the prediction of left atrial appendage thrombus in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
... left atrial appendage thrombus be- tween January 1, 2005 and December 31, ...with atrial flutter, without intervening episodes of atrial fibrillation, were not ...
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Original Article The influence of left atrial appendage closure on the structure and function of the left atrium
... left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) on the structure and function of the left atrium ...non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) who had undergone percutaneous LAAC using the Watchman ...
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Left Atrial Appendage Mechanical Changes in Patient with Mitral Stenosis Speckle Tracking Imaging Study
... Longitudinal atrial contractile strain rate (ASr) ...left atrial appendage marked- ...left atrial appendages, mainly at the sub endocardial tissue ...
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Rotational method simplifies 3-dimensional measurement of left atrial appendage dimensions during transesophageal echocardiography
... left atrial appendage (LAA) number of lobes, orifice area, maximal and minimal diameters and depth parameters on the 3D transesophageal echocardiography (3DTEE) image and LAA measurements after turning the ...
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Left Atrial Appendage Printing Process
... left atrial appendage in order to properly size the ...left atrial appendage, but this could vary based on different CT scan ...the appendage to ensure that the device is correctly ...
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Left atrial appendage closure devices for cardiovascular risk reduction in atrial fibrillation patients
... Abstract: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical ...of atrial thrombi in nonvalvular AF patients originate from the left atrial appendage, leading to the ...
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