LAA (Left Atrial Appendage) closure

This session focuses on innovations to invent or improve therapeutic modalities in the cath lab based on unmet needs in PCI, LAAO, CHF interventions, intravascular imaging and therapeutics, TAVI, and peripheral vascular interventions.

Discover the case of a 82 year-old male patient with an history of AF, hypertension and CAD with PCI to the LAD and LCx, presenting with worsening dizziness. MRI reveals a cavernoma in the right corona radiata with subacute haemorrhage. Watch the video to know more...

See the case of a 76-year-old female patient with mitral valve repair 10 years prior found to have incomplete surgically ligated left atrial appendage, who was referred for closure.

Michele Pighi provides his take on the National Cardiovascular LAAO Registry that analyzed data from 51,333 patients who underwent LAAO procedures with the WATCHMAN device between 2016-2019, as part of the College's NCDR registries.

Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) is a promising interventional treatment option for preventing cardioembolic events in non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who can not tolerate long-term oral anticoagulation.

The SWISS-APERO is a prospective, investigator-initiated, randomized, multi-center, and clinical trial designed to compare the Amulet and Watchman (2.5 and FLX) devices in a head-to-head fashion.

Ali Nazmi Calik reviews Amulet IDE, a prospective, randomized, multi-center and active-control trial designed to compare the Amulet and Watchman 2.5 devices in a head-to-head fashion, and presented by Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy during TCT 2021.

Thanks to the contribution of a team of interventional cardiologists from around the globe, view the international perspective on Late-breaking Clinical Trials and Science released at TCT 2021 - check out the list here!

Luigi Biasco reports the best of Dj Lakkireddy (Overland Park, USA)'s presentation of the AMULET IDE trial at the Monday, August 30 Hot Line session of the ESC Congress 2021.

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