A novel device for left atrial appendage exclusion: The third-generation atrial exclusion device

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1019-1027

  Fumoto, Hideyuki ^a   Gillinov, A Marc ^a   Ootaki, Yoshio ^a   Akiyama, Masatoshi ^a   Saeed, Diyar ^a   Horai, Tetsuya ^a   Ootaki, Chiyo ^a   Vince, D Geoffrey ^a   Popović, Zoran B ^a   Dessoffy, Raymond ^a   Massiello, Alex ^a   Catanese, Jacquelyn ^a   Fukamachi, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIAL EXCLUSION DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPLER; STERNOTOMY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEMODYNAMICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 54049138360     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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