Percutaneous vascular plug for incomplete surgical left atrial appendage closure.

نویسندگان

  • Justin P Levisay
  • Sandeep Sangodkar
  • Michael H Salinger
  • Mark Lampert
  • Ted Feldman
چکیده

Surgical left atrial appendage (LAA) exclusion has a failure rate as high as 60% due to persistent residual flow in the LAA or large LAA remnants. We describe a novel technique for treatment of incomplete surgical LAA ligation, and define the mechanism that led to persistence of the remnant LAA without any thrombus formation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of invasive cardiology

دوره 26 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014