Left atrial appendage occlusion
Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion: patient selection and perspectives
... nonvalvular atrial fibrillation are extremely ...targeting left atrial appendage occlusion was designed to fulfill the unmet clinical expectations and possibly constitutes an ...
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Original Article Efficacy and safety of dabigatran and dual antiplatelet therapy after left atrial appendage occlusion with the Watchman device
... the left atrial appendage (LAA) has emerged as a new method for the prevention of stroke in patients with non-valvular ...of occlusion is to completely close the LAA, isolate the source of ...
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Early Experience Using a Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
... pericardial effusion except for mediastinal lymphadenopathy and high adenosine deaminase level in the pericardial fluid. The mediastinal lymph node biopsy results indicated reac- tive hyperplasia. Anti-tuberculous ...
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Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device: Evaluation of Surgical Implant Success and in Vivo Corrosion Performance
... the left atrial appendage (LAA) ...of left atrial thrombi originate in the LAA ...with atrial fibrillation undergoing cardiac surgery ...
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Novel stroke risk reduction in atrial fibrillation: left atrial appendage occlusion with a focus on the Watchman closure device
... compliant occlusion balloon in the LAA, two magnet-tipped guide wires inserted into the LAA and the pericardial space, and a closure snare device (using a 40 mm pre-tied suture loop) for ligation/exclusion of the ...
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Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: an update
... Figure 6 (A-B) the ACP device consists of a lobe and a disk connected by a short, flexible waist. Both the lobe and disk are constructed from a nitinol mesh covered with a polyester patch. The lobe is implanted within ...
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- LAA Occluder View for post-implantation Evaluation (LOVE) - standardized imaging proposal evaluating implanted left atrial appendage occlusion devices by cardiac computed tomography
... LAA occlusion devices, such as device com- pression, peri-device leaks, lobe coverage and progress of neo-endothelialization related to study-specific anti- thrombotic ...
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Feasibility and outcomes of combined transcatheter aortic valve replacement with other structural heart interventions in a single session: a matched cohort study
... Aim: To investigate the feasibility of combined single- session percutaneous cardiac interventions in the era of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Methods: This prospective, case – control study included 10 ...
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Left atrial appendage closure devices for cardiovascular risk reduction in atrial fibrillation patients
... endocardial approaches to occlude the LAA (Figure 2A). The device has three components: 1) a 20 mm compliant occlusion balloon, 2) 0.025-inch and 0.035-inch magnet- tipped guidewires, and 3) a 12F suture delivery ...
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Rotational method simplifies 3-dimensional measurement of left atrial appendage dimensions during transesophageal echocardiography
... appropriate occlusion device depends on accurate measurements of the landing zone diame- ...the occlusion device is usually selected to be a few millimeters larger in diameter than the measure- ments of the ...
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Diagnose the Size of Left Atrial Appendage for Watchman Device
... There are several options and devices available for closure of the LAA such as AMULET and WATCHMAN devices, which we used of WATCHMAN device that it is a generally safe and feasible method for percutaneously sealing the ...
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Original Article The influence of left atrial appendage closure on the structure and function of the left atrium
... Schwartz [25] found that endothelial cells cov- ered the Watchman device and firmly attached the device to the interface of the LA at 45 days after discharge. Kar [26] observed that the sur- face of the Watchman device ...
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The Morphology of Left Atrial Appendage Lobes: A Novel Characteristic Naming Scheme Derived through Three Dimensional Cardiac Computed Tomography
... with atrial fibrilla- tion and atrial ...LAA appendage has become the subject of current research because of the emergence of appendage occlusion devices for patients with atrial ...
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Contrast enhanced CMR in patients after percutaneous closure of the left atrial appendage: A pilot study
... Over- or undersizing, device migration or displace- ment could contribute to unsuccessful device deploy- ment. Incomplete occlusion of LAA is one of the major concerns leaving the clinician in the dilemma of ...
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Twelve-month outcome in patients with stroke and atrial fibrillation not suitable to oral anticoagulant strategy: the WATCH-AF registry
... Study subjects were consecutive stroke patients with AF admitted to the Bichat Stroke Centre and the Lyon Stroke Unit. Inclusion criteria were ischaemic or haem- orrhagical stroke as well as transient ischaemic attack ...
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Radiofrequency catheter ablation in atrial arrhythmias : insight into pre-procedural evaluation and procedural guidance
... 9. Camm AJ, Kirchhof P, Lip GY, Schotten U, Savelieva I, Ernst S, Van Gelder IC, Al-Attar N, Hindricks G, Prendergast B, Heidbuchel H, Alfieri O, Angelini A, Atar D, Colonna P, De CR, De SJ, Goette A, Gorenek B, Heldal ...
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The left atrial appendage morphology and gender differences by multi-detector computed tomography in an Egyptian population
... failure, atrial fib- rillation, and history of stroke or transient ischemic at- ...for left ventricular function and presence of valvular heart disease, and elec- trocardiograms (ECGs) were reviewed for ...
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Correlation between mitral annular systolic velocity and left atrial appendage function in mitral stenosis.
... In a study by Simonson and Pai et al, published in American Journal of Cardiology in the year 1991, showed that a strong correlation exists between left ventricular ejection fraction and the annular displacement ...
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PROPER LOCALIZATION OF UMBILICAL ARTERIAL AND VENOUS CATHETERS BY LATERAL ROENTGENOGRAMS
... Lateral projection clearly demonstrates that the umbilical venous catheter has passed through the ductus venosus into the left atrial appendage. via a patent foramen ovale[r] ...
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A comparative study of different imaging modalities for successful percutaneous left atrial appendage closure
... Figure 5 Bland-Altman plots. The adapted Bland-Altman plots for 2D-TEE and optimal CT-guided LAA closure device sizing. This analysis only included successful percutaneous LAA closures (n=58). The plots show the ...
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