Limitations
stroke, ventricular cardiomyopathy, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
STROKE, NON-ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
This study is a single-center, non-randomized study, which lacks a control group and is prone to selective bias. In our study, ventricular cardiomyopathy was independently related with post LAAC death and stroke rate during the long term follow-up. However, the enrolled patients with ventricular cardiomyopathy were mainly non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. Ischemic cardiomyopathy had been very rare and thus was not included in the analysis. Our outcome should be interpreted and extrapolated with caution.