Left atrial appendage ligation and ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation: The LAALA-AF registry

JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 153-160

  Lakkireddy, Dhanunjaya ^a   Sridhar Mahankali, Arun ^a   Kanmanthareddy, Arun ^a   Lee, Randall ^b   Badhwar, Nitish ^b   Bartus, Krzysztof ^c   Atkins, Donita ^a   Bommana, Sudharani ^a   Cheng, Jie ^d   Rasekh, Abdi ^d   Di Biase, Luigi ^e   Natale, Andrea ^e   Nath, Jayant ^a   Ferrell, Ryan ^a   Earnest, Matthew ^a   Reddy, Yeruva Madhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research   (United States)

Author keywords

atrium; catheter ablation; fibrillation; stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CATHETER ABLATION; CHADS2 SCORE; CHADSVASC SCORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAS BLED SCORE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE SYSTEM LIGATION; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 84939650599     PISSN: 2405500X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacep.2015.04.006     Document Type: Article

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