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)