@article{23c184a7a64743e08f0f11f255cbf9e7,
title = "Understanding Cardiac Anatomy and Imaging to Improve Safety of Procedures: The Left Atrial Appendage",
keywords = "anatomy, left atrial appendage",
author = "Macias, \{Isabella M.\} and Shumpei Mori and Takanori Sato and Yuichiro Miyazaki and Mark Rimmer and Peter Hanna and Moussa, \{Issam D.\} and Kalyanam Shivkumar",
note = "This work was made possible by support from National Institutes of Health grant P01 HL164311 to Dr Shivkumar and the UCLA Amara-Yad Project (https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/heart/arrhythmia/about-us/amara-yad-project). The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose. The authors thank the individual who donated their body for the advancement of education and research. The authors are grateful to the OneLegacy Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (grant P01 HL164311 to Dr Shivkumar), which formed the basis for obtaining donor hearts for research and for funding this effort, respectively. The authors also thank the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Amara-Yad Project for supporting this work. The authors are grateful to Prof Warwick J. Peacock, Mr Nestor J. Juarez, and Mr Edwin Ng with the UCLA Surgical Sciences Laboratory as well as Mr Travis G. Siems, Mr Alex Rodriguez, and Ms Melissa Demers with the UCLA Donated Body Program for their support in dissections. The authors thank Dr Olujimi A. Ajijola for establishing and maintaining an organ procurement pipeline for research. The authors deeply appreciate their research operations managers, Ms Amiksha S. Gandhi and Ms Hunter N. Strause, for their dedication and support for their projects.",
year = "2025",
month = jul,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104119",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
journal = "JACC: Case Reports",
issn = "2666-0849",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "19",
}