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Author(s): Oussama M Wazni Added: 1 year ago
AHA Conference 2024 - Safety and efficacy outcomes comparing left atrial appendage (LAA) closure with the WATCHMAN FLX device to oral anticoagulation (OAC) following atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation.Dr Oussama Wazni (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, US) joins us onsite at AHA Conference to discuss the findings from OPTION (NCT03795298).OPTION is a prospective, multi-center, multi… View more
Added: 4 months ago Source:  Radcliffe Cardiology
Adding aspirin to an oral anticoagulant (OAC) regimen results in a higher risk of ischaemic events, all-cause mortality, and major bleeding in patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) at high atherothrombotic risk, according to the results of the AQUATIC trial.¹ The study was stopped early due to an excess of deaths in the aspirin group.The AQUATIC trial was a multicentre, double-blind,… View more
Author(s): Josep Rodés-Cabau Added: 2 months ago
TCT 2025 - Short-term anticoagulation reduced adverse events following left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) compared to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT).Dr Josep Rodés-Cabau (Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec, CA) joins us at TCT 2025 to discuss findings from ANDES trial (NCT03568890) investigating the safety and efficacy of short-term anticoagulation versus DAPT for preventing device… View more
Author(s): Davide Capodanno , Sneha Shah Jain Added: 4 months ago
Presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2025, Prof Carolyn Lam (Singapore, UK), Prof Davide Capodanno (Catania, IT), Dr Sneha Shah Jain (Stanford, US) and Prof Jeffrey Weitz (Hamilton, CA) examine the prevalence and challenges of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF) and after acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The faculty review current treatment guidelines, explore… View more
Author(s): Yan Yan , Gilles Montalescot Added: 2 years ago
ESC 23 — Dr Yan Yan (Beijing Anzhen Hospital, CN) and Prof Gilles Montalescot (Pitie Salpetriere APHP University Hospital,FR) discusses the findings from a comparison of anticoagulation prolongation vs no anticoagulation in STEMI patients post-primary PCI (RIGHT) (NCT03664180). The RIGHT study (Beijing Anzhen Hospital) aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of anticoagulation… View more
Author(s): Dirk-Jan van Ginkel Added: 1 year ago
ESC Congress 2024 — No benefit of continuing oral anticoagulation during TAVI procedure.Investigator, Dr Dirk-Jan van Ginkel (St Antonius Hospital, NL) joins us to discuss the result of the POPular PAUSE TAVI trial (NCT04437303; St Antonius Hospital). Presented for the first time at ESC 2024, this multicenter, randomized, open-label clinical trial compared the safety and efficacy of continuous… View more
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Prof. Ken Okumura served as a Professor of Medicine at Hirosaki University School of Medicine from 1996 to 2016. He also served as a President of the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society (JHRS) from 2012 to 2016. He is now working at Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital Cardiovascular Center, Japan, while providing the latest interventional treatments for cardiac arrhythmias especially catheter ablation of AF… View more