Contemporary left atrial appendage management during adult cardiac surgery

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¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa. Electronic address: vinay.badhwar@wvumedicine.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa.
³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Ga.
⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.

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Vinay Badhwar et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 Apr.

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. 2023 Apr;165(4):1398-1404.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.02.029. Epub 2022 Feb 24.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa. Electronic address: vinay.badhwar@wvumedicine.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa.
³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Ga.
⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; left atrial appendage; surgical ablation; surgical management.

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