One-stop strategy for treatment of atrial fibrillation: feasibility and safety of combining catheter ablation and left atrial appendage closure in a single procedure

• Published in: Chinese medical journal Vol. 133; no. 12; pp. 1422 - 1428
• Main Authors: Chen, Mu, Wang, Zhi-Quan, Wang, Qun-Shan, Sun, Jian, Zhang, Peng-Pai, Feng, Xiang-Fei, Li, Wei, Yu, Ying, Liu, Bo, Mo, Bin-Feng, Zhang, Rui, Yang, Mei, Gong, Chang-Qi, Zhao, Ming-Zhe, Yu, Yi-Chi, Zhao, Yan, Lu, Qiu-Fen, Li, Yi-Gang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China The Chinese Medical Association, produced by Wolters Kluwer, Inc. under the CC-BY-NC-ND license 20.06.2020; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies; Department of Cardiology, Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200092, China; Wolters Kluwer Health; Wolters Kluwer
• Subjects: Ablation; Atrial Appendage - surgery; Atrial Fibrillation - surgery; Blood clots; Cardiac arrhythmia; Catheter Ablation; Catheters; Contraindications; Demographics; Electrocardiography; Embolisms; Feasibility Studies; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Original; Patients; Sinuses; Stroke; Treatment Outcome; Veins & arteries; United States > US; China; One-stop procedure; Stroke; Atrial fibrillation; Left atrial appendage closure; Catheter ablation; WATCHMAN

Catheter ablation is effective in restoring sinus rhythm and left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) is increasingly used for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We aimed to observe the feasibility and safety of performing AF ablation and LAAC in a single (one-stop) procedure....