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Cardiac transplantation remains the gold standard therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure that is refractory to optimal medical therapy (American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association stage D heart failure). Since the first cardiac transplantation in 1967, considerable advances in…
Pathogenesis of Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus Formation The left atrial appendage (LAA) is by far the most common location for an atrial thrombus with extra-appendage thrombi being very rare in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Thrombus forms within the LAA primarily…