Left Atrial Appendage Isolation in Patients Not Responding to Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Benefit and Risks

Christian Hendrik Heeger, Andreas Rillig, Dominic Geisler, Peter Wohlmuth, Thomas Fink, Shibu Mathew, Roland Richard Tilz, Bruno Reissmann, Christine Lemes, Tilman Maurer, Francesco Santoro, Osamu Inaba, Christian Sohns, Yin Hao Huang, Hannes Alessandrini, Inge Dotz, Michael Schlüter, Andreas Metzner, Karl Heinz Kuck, Feifan Ouyang*

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56 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
JournalCirculation
Volume139
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)712-715
Number of pages4
ISSN0009-7322
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29.01.2019

Funding

Dr Heeger has received travel grants from St. Jude Medical, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Biotronik, and Medtronic and research grants from Cardiofocus. Dr Rillig has received travel grants from Biosense Webster, Hansen Medical, Medtronic, and St. Jude Medical and lecture fees from St. Jude Medical, Medtronic, and Boehringer Ingelheim and participated in the Boston Scientific EP Fellowship. Dr Tilz has received travel grants from St. Jude Medical, Topera, BiosenseWebster, Daiichi Sankyo, and Sentreheart and Speaker’s Bureau honoraria from BiosenseWebster, Biotronik, Pfizer, Topera, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer, and Sanofi Aventis. Dr Kuck has received travel grants and research grants from Biosense Webster, Stereotaxis, Prorhythm, Medtronic, Edwards, and Cryo-cath and is a consultant to St. Jude Medical, Biosense Webster, Prorhythm, and Stereotaxis. He has received speaker’s honoraria from Medtronic. Dr Metzner has received speaker’s honoraria and travel grants from Medtronic, Biosense Webster, and Cardiofocus. The other authors report no conflicts.

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