We expect the CLAAS AcuFORM device will eventually enable the adoption of Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) imaging." ICE does not require general anesthesia reducing the need for additional ...

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Introduction: Shape of the left atrial appendage (LAA) has been proposed a predictor of ... CT is increasingly utilized for identifying LAA thrombus prior to cardioversion in patients with AF. In this ...

Sposato explained that most patients undergo a transthoracic echo during hospitalization ... top part of the heart — specifically the left atrial appendage, which is where most clots in the ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Procedural and clinical outcomes of percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO ... procedures were more likely to involve guidance by intracardiac echocardiography and came with ...

Assess the possibility of intracardiac thrombus. Use transesophageal echo if suspicion for left-atrial appendage thrombus is high. If atrial fibrillation is cardioverted inadvertently in a high ...

adelaide.edu.au Context The left atrial appendage (LAA) has been suggested to be the dominant location of thrombus in atrial fibrillation (AF) and has led to the development of LAA occlusion as a ...

Correspondence to Dr Nazem Akoum, Cardiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; nakoum{at}cardiology.washington.edu The current paradigm of stroke risk assessment ...

Left atrial appendage closure is an alternative strategy for stroke prophylaxis, Wazni and colleagues noted. "The safety and ...