Update on the Non-Pharmacological Management of Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Non-surgical left atrial appendage occlusion has emerged as an alternative to anticoagulant therapy in the management of stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation. This review reports on some of the more common devices that are currently being used to manage patients in this challenging group...

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Autores principales: Tolat, Aneesh, Lippman, Neal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29439542
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7020032
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spelling pubmed-58524482018-03-19 Update on the Non-Pharmacological Management of Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Tolat, Aneesh Lippman, Neal J Clin Med Review Non-surgical left atrial appendage occlusion has emerged as an alternative to anticoagulant therapy in the management of stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation. This review reports on some of the more common devices that are currently being used to manage patients in this challenging group. MDPI 2018-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5852448/ /pubmed/29439542 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm7020032 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Update on the Non-Pharmacological Management of Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
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title_full Update on the Non-Pharmacological Management of Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
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title_short Update on the Non-Pharmacological Management of Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
title_sort update on the non-pharmacological management of stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852448/
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