Patients who had leakage to the left atrial appendage due to incomplete device sealing after left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) experienced more clotting and bleeding events within a year ...

On June 5, 2023, Conformal Medical Inc., developer of a left atrial appendage occlusion system, announced a successful Series D funding round, raising a total of $35 million. The round was led by ...

Study will assess the Company's Next-Generation device under Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) imaging for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (LAAO) procedures. "Simplified sizing and ease of use ...

On the first day of the 2016 CardioStim sessions, I am happy to report a "positive" study on percutaneous left atrial appendage closure [1]. Notice I did not write Watchman. In Europe, the majority of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a single-center study, there was no difference in outcomes after left atrial appendage occlusion according to ...

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(UPDATED) Device-related thrombus (DRT) following left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion is associated with subsequent ischemic events, but a range of patient- and procedure-related factors may help ...

Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) with a WATCHMAN device was associated with a low rate of stroke at one year even among older patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) who faced a ...

A decision model found that the relative clinical benefit of left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) and oral anticoagulants (OAC) in patients with atrial fibrillation depends on the patients' baseline ...

DETROIT (June 30, 2022) – Findings of a Henry Ford Health study published in the Journal of American Heart Association from researchers in the Center for Structural Heart Disease (Division of ...