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Apr 14 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Importance of Patient Selection in Left Atrial Appendage Closure

Sky SCAI has published an expert consensus document on left-hula-pennage closure. The sky document makes their first and I think strongest focus on patient selection. They write those with high stroke risk not suited for long-term oral inter-quagulation to benefit from the procedure. Sky also makes recommendations regarding experience but as the editorialists write these are empirical translation they are just simple guesses about how much experience an operator should have.

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