Left Atrial Appendage Closure – The WATCHMAN Device

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common arrhythmias seen in clinical cardiology practice. Patients with non-valvular AF have an approximately 5-fold increase in the risk of stroke, with an exponential increase with advancing age. Cardioembolic strokes carry a high mortality risk. Although...

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Published in:Curr Cardiol Rev
Main Authors: Akinapelli, Abhilash, Bansal, Ojas, Chen, Jack P., Pflugfelder, Alex, Gordon, Nicole, Stein, Kenneth, Huibregtse, Barbara, Hou, Dongming
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Bentham Science Publishers 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4774639/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26242188
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X11666150805115822
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