Percutaneous vascular plug for incomplete surgical left atrial appendage closure.
Surgical left atrial appendage (LAA) exclusion has a failure rate as high as 60% due to persistent residual flow in the LAA or large LAA remnants. We describe a novel technique for treatment of incomplete surgical LAA ligation, and define the mechanism that led to persistence of the remnant LAA without any thrombus formation.
Evanston Hospital, Cardiology Division, Walgreen Building 3rd Floor, 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 USA. tfeldman@tfeldman.org.
Justin P
JP
Levisay
Sandeep
S
Sangodkar
Michael H
MH
Salinger
Mark
M
Lampert
Ted
T
Feldman
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D017130:Angioplasty / Q000379:methods*; D020517:Atrial Appendage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000601:surgery*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D016896:Treatment Outcome