Zero contrast left atrial appendage occlusion and peridevice leak closure in patients with advanced kidney disease

Heart Rhythm. 2022 Jun;19(6):1013-1014. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.01.036. Epub 2022 Feb 4.

¹ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Department of Cardiovascular/Respiratory Diseases, Nephrology, Anesthesiology, and Geriatric Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular/Respiratory Diseases, Nephrology, Anesthesiology, and Geriatric Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
⁶ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, Texas; Department of Cardiology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; Interventional Electrophysiology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California.

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Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Chronic kidney disease; Contrast-induced nephropathy; Left atrial appendage; Stroke prevention; Watchman.

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