Long-term Outcomes of Convergent-Clip!
Drs. Chalfoun and Banno from Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI discuss their landmark paper, “Four Year Follow-up of Outcomes of the Hybrid Epicardial-Endocardial Ablation: A Single Center Experience.” This is the first paper that describes the outcomes of the Convergent procedure in combination with left atrial appendage ligation with the AtriClip and Ligament of Marshall division. This in depth conversation covers all aspect of their program inception, growth and evolution to its current state and the results of their paper.
A Hybrid Team Approach for Atrial Fibrillation
In this episode I describe our recent study revealing our results of a Hybrid team approach for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. I cover our hybrid technique, why we separate each stage, which lesions we perform and how our approach has changed over time. Most importantly I share how effective and safe this team approach has been in now nearly 1,000 patients!
LAALA Study - How effective is an AtriClip?
In this episode I describe our recent LAALA study - Left atrial appendage ligation using the AtriClip Device: Single-Center study of device safety and efficacy. The basic question we were trying to answer was does the AtriClip work? In order to answer this question we asked 100 patients to come back to Saint Helena Hospital to have a TEE performed at least 1 year after their AtriClip had been placed. Listen to the episode to learn how well the AtriClip performed!