Delayed and fatal embolization of a left atrial appendage closure device

Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Aug;7(4):628-30. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.114.001546.

Authors

Adel Aminian¹, Iman Chouchane², Michèle Compagnie², Michael Decubber², Jacques Lalmand²

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Cardiology (A.A., I.C., M.D., J.L.) and Division of Internal Medicine (M.C.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium. [email protected].
² From the Division of Cardiology (A.A., I.C., M.D., J.L.) and Division of Internal Medicine (M.C.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium.

PMID: 25139089
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.114.001546

No abstract available

Keywords: Amplatzer Cardiac Plug; complications; death; embolization; left atrial appendage closure; mitral valve insufficiency.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Angiography
Atrial Appendage / pathology
Atrial Appendage / surgery*
Atrial Fibrillation / complications
Atrial Fibrillation / surgery*
Cardiac Catheterization / methods
Echocardiography
Embolism* / etiology
Fatal Outcome
Female
Heart Arrest / etiology
Hemodynamics
Humans
Postoperative Complications*
Prosthesis Failure* / etiology
Prosthesis Implantation*
Septal Occluder Device / statistics & numerical data*