Left Atrial Appendage After Electrical Isolation: To Occlude or Not To Occlude, That Is the Question

Luigi Di Biase¹, Andrea Natale²

• ¹From the Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (L.D.B.); Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin (L.D.B., A.N.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin (L.D.B.); Department of Cardiology, University of Foggia, Italy (L.D.B.); Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (A.N.); Section of Electrophysiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (A.N.); Section of Electrophysiology, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA (A.N.); Dell Medical School, Austin, TX (A.N.); and California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco (A.N.).+1