Closing the Oval Door

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Dec 2015 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, volume 8, pages 1,922-1,924 (issn: 1936-8798,

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Authors: Holmes, David R.; Packer, Douglas L.;

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2015.08.034

pmid: 26738660

Closing the Oval Door

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Abstract

As is widely appreciated by all medical and surgical specialties, atrial fibrillation is the most common significant cardiac arrhythmia seen in practice; approximately 5 to 7 million patients in the United States have atrial fibrillation, with the numbers expected to increase to approximately 16

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Keywords

Stroke, left atrial appendage occlusion, Atrial Fibrillation, nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, Anticoagulants, Atrial Appendage, stroke prevention, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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