Left atrial appendage closure in a patient with atrial fibrillation after mechanical mitral valve replacement and cardio-embolic stroke despite effective oral anticoagulant therapy: A case report

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 587-589

  Sedaghat, Alexander ^a   Nickenig, Georg ^a   Hammerstingl, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AMPLATZER VASCULAR PLUG; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE; PROCEDURES; STROKE; SURGERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84902837310     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-014-0704-4     Document Type: Letter

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