RESECTION OF THE LEFT AURICULAR APPENDIX

摘要: A therapeutic problem which remains unsolved is the one pertaining to recurrent arterial emboli. Once a peripheral embolus has occurred there high incidence of recurrence. Unfortunately, all too frequently fatal, commonly involving cerebral arteries.1As Jefferson so aptly stated2: "In nature things very percentage successes unlikely ever be attained, for emboli are apt multiple and further infarction will sometimes carry off patient in whom local success been won." Since thrombus precursor every embolus, ideal prophylaxis should removal together with its site origin. Rheumatic mitral stenosis commonest causes an occurring approximately 45 per cent cases.1bIn this disease