Joint Analysis of Morphological Parameters and In Silico Haemodynamics of the Left Atrial Appendage for Thrombogenic Risk Assessment

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(a) Organization of the cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), transient ischemic attack (TIA), and cerebrovascular accident (CVA). (b) Computational pipeline followed in the study: data acquisition, left atrium (LA) segmentation from medical images, preprocessing, morphologic characterization of the LA and left atrial appendage (LAA), haemodynamic simulations, postprocessing, and statistical analysis of the data.

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