Stroke Prevention with Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure
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Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia with increasing prevalence. AF is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Cardioembolic stroke results as a consequence of thrombus formation within the left atrial appendage (LAA) in patients with AF and has a significant impact on our health system. Oral anticoagulation with either vitamin K antagonists or the novel anticoagulants is an effective medical therapy for prophylaxis against strokes in patients suffering from AF. Unfortunately, bleeding complications and compliance issues limit their use. A need for newer approaches have thereby been developed and studied such as percutaneous occlusion of the LAA. Several LAA occlusion devices have been developed, and with improved operator experience, they have been successful in stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular AF and fewer periprocedural complications. This article reviews the use of percutaneous LAA occlusion devices in the prevention of cardioembolic stroke.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".