Download or read book Left Atrial Appendage, an Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, Volume 12-1 written by Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In collaboration with the Consulting Editors, Ranjan K. Thakur and Andrea Natale, Drs. David R. Holmes Jr., Saibal Kar, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, and Vivek Reddy have assembled an issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics on Left Atrial Appendage. Topics include, but are not limited to, why we have an atrial appendage, thromboembolism in AF, role of LAA in systemic homeostasis, history of LAA closure, impact of LAA closure on systemic thromboembolization, perirprocedural imaging, anatomical considerations for epicardial and endocardial appendage closure, epicardial vs endocardial closure, technical considerations of endocardial and epicardial closure, surgical LAA occlusion, post procedural management, AF patients undergoing ablation, and more.