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Personalized occluders for the left atrial appendage

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Occluders for the left atrial appendage that are patient-specific, thus ensuring better fitting and potentially less complications, can be made by 3D-printing inflatable polymer devices on the basis of data derived from computed tomography scans.

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Fig. 1: Design and deployment of a patient-specific occluder for the left atrial appendage.

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    Carola Gianni & Andrea Natale

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Gianni, C., Natale, A. Personalized occluders for the left atrial appendage. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 2–3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0184-8

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