The predictive value of a concise classification of left atrial appendage morphology to thrombosis in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The complexity of left atrial appendage (LAA) in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) is closely related to LAA thrombosis and stroke incidence. But the classification of LAA morphology is not uniform and controversial.

Hypothesis

This study divided the LAA into two categories according to the LAA morphology to investigate the risk of thrombosis related to the LAA structural complexity in NVAF patients.

Methods

A total of 336 NVAF patients were enrolled continuously in this study. The patients were divided into thrombosis group and non-thrombosis group according to whether the thrombus presence in LAA. Through computer LAA three-dimensional reconstruction, LAA morphology was divided into the complex type and simple type according to with or

SUBMITTER: He J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368353 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature