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Association of Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion With Subsequent Stroke and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: JAMA

Source URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2681747

Author(s)

Xiaoxi Yao, Bernard J. Gersh, David R. Holmes Jr, Rowlens M. Melduni, Daniel O. Johnsrud, Lindsey R. Sangaralingham, Nilay D. Shah, Peter A. Noseworthy

This review of over 75,000 patients from a large administrative database found that occlusion of the left atrial appendage during cardiac surgery was associated with a reduced risk of subsequent stroke and all-cause mortality.