Surgical left atrial appendage occlusion during cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 2 Baseline and procedural characteristics of included studies

Study	Age (mean ± SD)		Hypertension		AF (%)		Technique of s-LAAO
	s-LAAO	No occlusion	s-LAAO	No occlusion	s-LAAO	No occlusion
García-Fernández et al, 2003[3]	63 ± 12	62 ± 10	NR	NR	NR		Double suturing
Healey et al, 2005[7]	72 ± 6	71 ± 5	75	92	17	8	Suture or stapler
Nagpal et al, 2009[8]	57.8 ± 13.3	59.2 ± 11.9	NR	NR	18	29	Resection
Whitlock et al, 2013[9]	77.4 ± 6.8	74.6 ± 7.6	92.3	92	100	100	Amputation and closure or stapler
Zapolanski et al, 2013[4]	70.52 ± 11.83		83.9	80.6	19.9	10.7	Double ligation
Kim et al, 2013[6]	66.6 ± 11.4	65.8 ± 11.6	80.9	73.1	NR	NR	Ligation and excision
Lee et al, 2014[5]	55.9 ± 12.2	50.7 ± 12.4	19.8	14.5	100	100	Amputation
Melduni et al, 2017[10]	67.4 ± 12.7	67.6 ± 13.5	59	61	47	45	Amputation, suturing or stapler
Elbadawi et al, 2017[11]	70.8 ± 10.2	71.2 ± 11.1	70.6	52.8	100	100	NR
Elbadawi et al, 2017[12]	71.3 ± 9	70.6 ± 8.7	78.5	76.1	100	100	NR
Friedman et al, 2018[14]	75 ± 5.9	76.4 ± 6.4	14.5	12.7	50.5	43.4	Any technique
Yao et al, 2018[13]	68.2 ± 10.6	65.8 ± 11.3	88.6	90.4	75.4	31.4