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Nina Wunderlich

Nina Wunderlich

Dr. Nina Wunderlich is a German cardiologist and internationally recognized expert in 3D echocardiography, Head of Structural Heart Diseases/Noninvasive Cardiology at Asklepios Klinik Langen (formerly Cardiovascular Center Darmstadt).

Sep 15, 2026

0:46
What are the par- parameters that really matter, you know, now, when we're closing an appendage?
0:51
Yeah, Xavi.
0:51
I mean, it wasn't really helpful in telling us, uh, if a procedure is really challenging.
0:57
Yeah? We knew if you have a cauliflower morphology, we might have some more thrombi in the left atrial appendage.
1:03
Or if you have a Sanford, for example, you knew, well, you might have, or you might need a specific technique to close, uh, the left atrial appendage.
1:10
But it didn't really tell us if you are facing a challenging procedure.
1:14
So that's why we did some efforts and try, uh, to collect parameters, which are really important and which can really influence, uh, uh, your procedural strategy or device selection, uh, which could tell you that this procedure might be a more challenging one than a simple one.
3:55
So what do you think that it's an optimal implant for, uh, an LA closure device?

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