Closure of left atrial appendage during heart surgery protects the brain (LAACS)

(European Society of Cardiology) Closure of the left atrial appendage during heart surgery protects the brain, according to late-breaking research presented today in a Hot Line LBCT Session at ESC Congress.1 The results suggest that closure should be routinely added to open heart surgery.

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