A Case of Cardiogenic Stroke After Thoracoscopic Left Atrial Appendectomy.

We report this case to introduce how we evaluate the risk of postoperative cardiogenic stroke by means of contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography (CT), and how we formulate the postoperative patient management strategy including short-term oral anticoagulation therapy by using results of cardiac CT. PMID: 29937454 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29937454?dopt=Abstract

Source: International Heart Journal - June 27, 2018 Category: Cardiology Tags: Int Heart J Source Type: research