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Diagnosis of left atrial appendage thrombus using cardiac computed tomography: new insights from thrombi locations

2023-03-01 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundCardiac computed tomography (CCT) is an emerging non-invasive modality for assessing left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus, but the results were conflicting. Our study aims to evaluate the accuracy of CCT for detecting LAA thrombus in patients undergoing catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as the reference standard. MethodsFrom May 2017 to December 2022, 726 patients (male: 60.2%, age: 61{+/-}11 years) who had both TEE and CCT bef...

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