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Left atrial enlargement and clinical considerations in patients with or without a residual interatrial shunt after closure of the left atrial appendage with the WATCHMAN™-device

BACKGROUND: Interventional closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, high thromboembolic and bleeding risk or bleeding history is an alternative therapeutic strategy to oral anticoagulation. It is not known if the exclusion of the LAA from the bloo...

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Autores principales: Luani, Blerim, Groscheck, Thomas, Genz, Conrad, Tanev, Ivan, Rauwolf, Thomas, Herold, Joerg, Medunjanin, Senad, Schmeisser, Alexander, Braun-Dullaeus, Rüdiger C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29233088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-017-0728-6