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- Title
First-in-human experience of left atrial appendage occlusion with the steerable FuStar sheath.
- Authors
Kleinecke, Caroline; Gomez Monterrosas, Omar; Scalone, Giancarla; Lam, Yat‐Yin; Shin, Eun‐Seok; Bellmann, Barbara; Brachmann, Johannes; Park, Jai‐Wun; Lam, Yat-Yin; Shin, Eun-Seok; Park, Jai-Wun
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Due the wide variability of left atrial appendage morphology left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) remains a challenging procedure. The steerable FuStar delivery sheath was designed to allow both, transseptal access and delivery of percutaneous devices. We here report the first-in-human experience of LAAO with the FuStar sheath.<bold>Methods: </bold>Twenty patients (76.6 ± 8.4 years; 12 (60%) males; CHA2 DS2 -VASc score: 5.0 ± 2) with non-valvular fibrillation and contraindications to oral anticoagulation underwent LAAO with the LAmbre device using the FuStar steerable sheath (Lifetech Scientific Corp., Shenzhen, China) at two german centers.<bold>Results: </bold>Successful device implantation was achieved in all patients (100%). No periprocedural complications were observed. Procedure time, fluoroscopy time, contrast media, and radiation dose were 23.4 min ± 9.2, 11.9 min ± 4.1, 96.2 mL ± 45.7, and 2718.4 cG*cm2 ± 3835.3, respectively.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>This study demonstrates the feasibility and safety of the steerable FuStar sheath for LAAO.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ARTERIAL occlusions; ATRIAL fibrillation; FLUOROSCOPY; PREVENTIVE medicine; PERCUTANEOUS coronary intervention; STROKE prevention; HEART atrium; STROKE; PRODUCT design; TREATMENT effectiveness; DISEASE complications; SURGERY
- Publication
Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 4, p532
- ISSN
0896-4327
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/joic.12509