Left atrial appendage occlusion with the AMPLATZER Amulet device: one-year follow-up from the prospective global Amulet observational registry
Left atrial appendage occlusion with the AMPLATZER Amulet device: one-year follow-up from the prospective global Amulet observational registry
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DOI:
10.4244/eij-d-18-00344
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发表时间:
2018-08-01
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6.2
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Hildick-Smith, David
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作者:
Landmesser, Ulf;Tondo, Claudio;Hildick-Smith, David
Aims: Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) is a stroke prevention therapy for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). This study reports one-year outcomes from patients enrolled in the prospective global Amulet registry.Methods and results: A total of 1,088 patients were recruited, aged 75 +/- 9 years; 65% of patients were male. The CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc and HAS-BLED scores were 4.2 +/- 1.6 and 3.3 +/- 1.1, respectively. Eighty-three percent (83%) of patients had contraindications to anticoagulation (OAC); 72% had a history of major bleeding. An AMPLATZER Amulet LAA occluder was successfully implanted in 99% of cases. Transoesophageal echocardiography one to three months after implant showed no residual flow or flow 80%), in particular those on single aspirin therapy, did not appear to have a higher risk of device-related thrombus. In the first year, major bleeding occurred at an annualised rate of 10.3%. All-cause mortality was 8.4% at one year.Conclusions: In the global prospective Amulet registry of patients at high risk of stroke and bleeding, the annualised ischaemic stroke rate was 2.9%. The LAA was sealed in 98.4% after one to three months and device-related thrombus was observed in 1.7% of cases with only a minority of all patients on anticoagulation treatment.