Changes in Fibrinolytic Activity and Coagulation Factors after Left Atrial Appendage Closure in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (HEART-CLOT Study)
Short title: Changes in Blood Coagulation before and after LAAO
Radoslaw Litwinowicz1, Joanna Natorska2, Michal Zabczyk2, Boguslaw Kapelak1,, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy3, Randall J Lee4, Venkat Vuddanda 5, Krzysztof Bartus1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland
2Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
3The Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute & Research Foundation, Overland Park, KS, USA
4Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
5 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; USA
Corresponding author
Radoslaw Litwinowicz, PhD, MD
Institute of Cardiology Jagiellonian University Medical College
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