The use of surgical left atrial appendage occlusion devices, including the AtriClip device for stroke prevention as a stand-alone procedure for stroke prevention in individuals with AF.Table: CPT Codes / HCPCS Codes / ICD-10 Codes CPT codes covered if selection criteria are met: Information in ...
Patients with systolic HF were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 428.30, 428.31, 428.32, and 428.33 or receipt of LVAD. Patients whose race was other than Black or White were excluded because of small sample sizes. Race was self-identifiable,...
we performed a lookup of the lead signals (lead SNVs and high LD proxiesr2 > 0.8) in the GWAS summary statistics of the other PCs (Supplementary Data10). Notably, several signals for PC5 (lateral width) were also genome-wide significant in...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Patients with AF have an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity, such as stroke and heart failure, and a 1.5–2 fold increased risk of death1. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have associated common variants in structural ...
These were outpatients and patients hospitalized for ICD implantation or for right-sided catheterization. Data collection took place in 2014 and 2015 and all patients signed informed consent. The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the ...
Participants were followed for MACEs up to 8.2 years from baseline examinations. MACE was defined as the first occurrence of any of the following events: non-fatal acute myocardial infarction (AMI), non-fatal stroke, and CV deaths according to ICD10 code. ...