The left atrial appendage: our most lethal human attachment! Surgical implications✩
Open Access
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Vol. 17 (6), 718-722
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(00)00419-x
Abstract
Objectives: To prevent death from atrial fibrillation, a cardiac disease which kills by producing emboli. Atrial fibrillation causes about 25% of strKeywords
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