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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31-202 Krakow, Poland
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e-mail: radek.litwinowicz@gmail.com