Impact of left atrial appendage morphology on peri-interventional thromboembolic risk during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1522-1527

  Kosiuk, Jedrzej ^a   Nedios, Sotirios ^a   Kornej, Jelena ^a   Koutalas, Emmanuel ^a   Bertagnolli, Livio ^b   Rolf, Sascha ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Husser, Daniela ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Bollmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation ablation; Complications; Left atrial appendage; Stroke; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; IOPROMIDE; WARFARIN;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CACTUS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CATHETER ABLATION; CAULIFLOWER; CHA2DS2VASC SCORE; CHICKEN WING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WINDSOCK; ABNORMALITIES; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906934492     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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