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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: February 26, 2013
Transient Left Atrial Appendage Inversion During Transcatheter Closure Device Placement
Waseem Barham1, Gaurav Dhar1, Nam S Cho1
1Michigan State University College of Human Medicine/Sparrow Thoracic Cardiovascular Institute, Division of Cardiology, Lansing, Michigan.
Abstract:
A 72-year-old female patient underwent left atrial appendage closure. During recapture of the occlusion device, transient inversion of the appendageal wall occurred. We describe the mechanism with real-time imaging and share our experience of handling this situation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of this unique recapture complication.
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