Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer than half of patients who underwent left atrial appendage occlusion during open-heart surgery had ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Innovation in left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) has reached the point that routine left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion has little to offer anymore in the way of ...

While the age-specific analysis was welcome, some felt it didn’t dig deep enough and others questioned the bleeding endpoints ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Surgical left atrial appendage occlusion reduced ischemic stroke by 33%. After the first high-risk ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib) who were already undergoing cardiac surgery for another indication benefited from having the left atrial appendage (LAA) occluded during that surgery, ...

High-risk patients with atrial fibrillation may have better outcomes with left atrial appendage (LAA) closure with the Amplatzer Amulet device (Abbott) than with direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) ...

On the first day of the 2016 CardioStim sessions, I am happy to report a "positive" study on percutaneous left atrial appendage closure [1]. Notice I did not write Watchman. In Europe, the majority of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Boston Scientific's WATCHMAN FLX transcatheter left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder device as an alternative to oral anticoagulation (OAC) ...

A decision model found that the relative clinical benefit of left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) and oral anticoagulants (OAC) in patients with atrial fibrillation depends on the patients' baseline ...

Patients who had leakage to the left atrial appendage due to incomplete device sealing after left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) experienced more clotting and bleeding events within a year ...

No benefit in terms of prevention of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack and cardiovascular mortality after 1 year was observed when surgical left atrial appendage occlusion was performed in ...