Adding left atrial appendage closure to open heart surgery provides protection from ischemic brain injury six years after surgery independently of atrial fibrillation history: the LAACS randomized study.
Jesper Park-HansenSusanne J V HolmeAkhmadjon IrmukhamedovChristian L CarranzaAnders M GreveGina Al-FarraRobert G C RiisBrian NilssonJohan S R ClausenAnne S NørskovChristina R KruuseEgill RostrupMaria Helena Dominquez Vall-LamoraPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2018)
LAACS study, clinicaltrials.gov NCT02378116 , March 4th 2015, retrospectively registered.
Keyphrases
- left atrial appendage
- brain injury
- atrial fibrillation
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- catheter ablation
- cerebral ischemia
- heart failure
- left atrial
- oral anticoagulants
- direct oral anticoagulants
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- ischemia reperfusion injury
- acute coronary syndrome