Left atrial appendage closure increases acute atrial pressure without long-term structural impact. Learn more about these ...

CHICAGO -- For patients at high risk of stroke who underwent catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation, left atrial appendage closure led to less bleeding compared with oral anticoagulation, the ...

Among patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib), the particular morphology of the left atrial appendage (LAA)—the source of most thromboemboli—appears to affect stroke risk, according to a study ...

Background A 73-year-old woman presented with a history of persistent atrial fibrillation, which had lasted more than five years. She also had a remote history of transient ischemic attack and had ...

Initial results from more than 800 atrial fibrillation patients presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2016 indicate the AMPLATZER™ Amulet™ LAA Occluder is a safe alternative to ...

Each year in the US, more than 300,000 people have heart surgery. To reduce risk of stroke for their patients, surgeons often will close the left atrial appendage, which is a small sac in the left ...

The shape of the left atrial appendage (LAA) is linked to risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), results of a preliminary retrospective study ...

Other hot topics included new data on LAAO and conduction-system pacing, plus the go-ahead for ablation in ASCs.

A major downside for percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAC) is that it leaves a foreign body within the left atrium. Foreign bodies in the arterial circulation raise concern over thrombus ...

More people have atrial fibrillation (AFib) than any other kind of irregular heartbeat. And the numbers are only expected to go up as people live longer with heart conditions that go along with it.