Left atrial appendage clip occlusion: Early clinical results

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1269-1274

  Salzberg, Sacha P ^a   Plass, Andre ^a   Emmert, Maximillian Y ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Grünenfelder, Jurg ^a   Genoni, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950935054     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.06.033     Document Type: Article

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