Left atrial appendage closure increases acute atrial pressure without long-term structural impact. Learn more about these ...

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CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared with oral anticoagulation, the ...

Among patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib), the particular morphology of the left atrial appendage (LAA)—the source of most thromboemboli—appears to affect stroke risk, according to a study ...

A major downside for percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAC) is that it leaves a foreign body within the left atrium. Foreign bodies in the arterial circulation raise concern over thrombus ...

Each year in the US, more than 300,000 people have heart surgery. To reduce risk of stroke for their patients, surgeons often will close the left atrial appendage, which is a small sac in the left ...

Ronald Wharton, MD: Hello. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and I just thought I would share with ...

Columbus Regional Health Heart & Vascular announced that its cardiovascular services team recently completed its 100th ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF or AFib) is one of the most common abnormal heart rhythms, affecting nearly 38 million people worldwide — a figure projected to nearly triple by 2030. Boston Scientific BSX ...