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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Safety and Healthcare Resource Utilization in Patients Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Closure-A Nationwide Analysis.

Tharusan Thevathasan, Sêhnou Degbeon, Julia Paul, Darius-Konstantin Wendelburg, Lisa Füreder, Anna Leonie Gaul, Jan F Scheitz, Gertraud Stadler, Andi Rroku, Sonia Lech and 7 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Left atrial appendage occlusion: trends in demographics and in-hospital outcomes-a German nationwide analysis.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2026
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  2. 2025 SCAI/HRS Clinical Practice Guidelines on Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tharusan ThevathasanDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4698-4079
Sêhnou DegbeonDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Julia PaulDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6528-8872
Darius-Konstantin WendelburgDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Lisa FürederDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2933-7454
Anna Leonie GaulDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Jan F ScheitzBerlin Institute of Health, Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2, 10178 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5835-4627
Gertraud StadlerResearch Unit Gender in Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Andi RrokuDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Sonia LechInstitute for Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9166-1258
Pichit BuspavanichResearch Unit Gender in Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4545-2575
Martin HuemerDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Philipp AttanasioDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Patrick NagelDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Markus ReinthalerDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Ulf LandmesserDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Carsten SkurkDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEGerman Centre for Cardiovascular Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) has emerged as a non-pharmacological alternative for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) not suitable for anticoagulation therapy. Real-world data on peri-procedural outcomes are limited. The aim of this study was to analyze outcomes of peri-procedural safety and healthcare resource utilization in 11,240 adult patients undergoing LAAC in the United States between 2016 and 2019. Primary outcomes (safety) were in-hospital ischemic stroke or systemic embolism (SE), pericardial effusion (PE), major bleeding, device embolization and mortality. Secondary outcomes (resource utilization) were adverse discharge disposition, hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs. Logistic and Poisson regression models were used to analyze outcomes by adjusting for 10 confounders. SE decreased by 97% between 2016 and 2019 [95% Confidence Interval (CI) 0-0.24] (

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atrial fibrillationbleedingepidemiologyleft atrial appendage closuresex differencestroke

Identifiers

PMID37510689
PMCPMC10380523
OpenAlexW4383736052

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