Left atrial appendage occlusion with the Amulet device: to tug or not to tug?
Mandy K SalmonKaren Eich HammerJens Vinge NygaardKasper KorsholmPeter JohansenJens Erik Nielsen-KudskPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (2020)
Increased force applied on the AMPLATZER™ Amulet™ device during disc deployment compared with during tug test was statistically significant, suggesting that the tug test is redundant in most cases for checking device stability.