Transition from Transesophageal Echocardiography to Cardiac Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus Prior to Atrial Fibrillation Ablation and Incidence of Cerebrovascular Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Short Title: Utility of pre-ablation CT only approach to LAA thrombus evaluation before AF ablation during COVId-19 pandemic
Tauseef Akhtar MD, Ryan Wallace MD, Usama A Daimee MD, Erica Hart MSc, Armin Arbab-Zadeh MD, MPH, PhD, Joseph E Marine MD, Ronald Berger MD, PhD, Hugh Calkins MD, David Spragg MD
Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287 USA.
Funding: (None)