Initial experience with a novel percutaneous left atrial appendage exclusion device in patients with atrial fibrillation, increased stroke risk, and contraindications to anticoagulation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 869-873

  Massumi, Ali ^a,b   Chelu, Mihail Gabriel ^a,b   Nazeri, Alireza ^a,b   May, Stephen Allen ^a,b   Afshar Kharaghan, Hamid ^b   Saeed, Mohammad ^a,b   Razavi, Mehdi ^a,b   Rasekh, Abdi ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIAC EQUIPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMORBIDITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE EXCLUSION DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERICARDIAL DRAIN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884211380     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.11.061     Document Type: Article

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