Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Affiliations

¹ Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, Nashville, TN (C.R.E.).
² Duke Center for Atrial Fibrillation, Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (J.P.P.).

Editorial

Christopher R Ellis et al. Circulation. 2018.

. 2018 Aug 28;138(9):886-888.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.035764.

¹ Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, Nashville, TN (C.R.E.).
² Duke Center for Atrial Fibrillation, Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (J.P.P.).

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Keywords: Editorials; atrial fibrillation; echocardiography, transesophageal; embolism; left atrial appendage occlusion; thrombosis.

Comment on

Device-Related Thrombus After Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes.
Dukkipati SR, Kar S, Holmes DR, Doshi SK, Swarup V, Gibson DN, Maini B, Gordon NT, Main ML, Reddy VY. Dukkipati SR, et al. Circulation. 2018 Aug 28;138(9):874-885. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.035090. Circulation. 2018. PMID: 29752398