Thoracoscopic stand-alone left atrial appendectomy for thromboembolism prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-107

  Ohtsuka, Toshiya ^a   Ninomiya, Mikio ^a   Nonaka, Takahiro ^a   Hisagi, Motoyuki ^a   Ota, Takahiro ^a   Mizutani, Toru ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN TAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

left atrial appendage excision; nonvalvular atrial fibrillation; secondary prevention stroke; thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMORRHOID HEMORRHAGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THORASCOPIC STAND ALONE APPENDECTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; THORACOSCOPY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879839191     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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