Percutaneous catheter-based left atrial appendage ligation and management of periprocedural left atrial appendage perforation with the LARIAT suture delivery system

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Shetty, Ranjith ^a   Leitner, Joshua P ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

epicardial access; left atrial appendage; percutaneous left atrial appendage ligation; pericardial effusion; transseptal access

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CARDIAC EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE PERFORATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE LIGATION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LIGATION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CATHETER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUTURE; SUTURE DELIVERY SYSTEM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869439934     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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