作者
Richard Whitlock,Emilie P. Belley‐Côté,Domenico Paparella,Jeff S. Healey,Katheryn Brady,Mukul Sharma,Wilko Reents,Petr Budera,Andony J Baddour,Petr Fila,P.J. Devereaux,Alexander Bogachev‐Prokophiev,Andreas Böning,Kevin Teoh,Georgios Tagarakis,Mark S. Slaughter,Alistair Royse,Shay McGuinness,Marco Alings,Prakash P Punjabi,C. David Mazer,Richard Folkeringa,Andrea Gualtiero Cavicchiolo,Álvaro Avezum,Juliet Nakamya,Kumar Balasubramanian,Jessica Vincent,Pierre Voisine,André Lamy,Salim Yusuf,Stuart J. Connolly
摘要
Surgical occlusion of the left atrial appendage has been hypothesized to prevent ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, but this has not been proved. The procedure can be performed during cardiac surgery undertaken for other reasons.