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Author(s): Walid Saliba Added: 3 months ago
AF Symposium 25 - Left atrial appendage (LAA) closure using the WATCHMAN FLX device (Boston Scientific) showed lower risk of bleeding and non-inferiority in efficacy endpoints to oral anticoagulation in patients who have received or are planning to receive AF ablation.Dr Walid Saliba (Cleveland Clinic, OH, US) joins us onsite at AF Symposium 25 to discuss the findings from the concomitant and… View more
Author(s): Paulus Kirchhof Added: 1 year ago
ESC 2023 — Prof Paulus Kirchhof (University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, DE) discusses the findings of the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial (NCT02618577). NOAH-AFNET 6 (Atrial Fibrillation Network, Daiichi Sankyo Europe) was an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomised trial aiming to demonstrate that oral anticoagulation using the NOAC edoxaban is superior to current therapy in stroke prevention,… View more
Author(s): Julius Nikorowitsch Added: 1 year ago
EHRA 24 - We are joined onsite by Dr Julius Nikorowitsch (University Heart and Vascular Centre Hamburg (UHZ), DE) to outline the impact of age, sex, cardiovascular comorbidities, and kidney function on outcomes with oral anticoagulation therapy in patients with device-detected atrial fibrillation in a substudy of the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial (NCT02618577).The substudy consisted of 2534 patients from… View more
Author(s): Else Sandset , Jesse Dawson , Urs Fischer , et al Added: 1 year ago
Dr Else Sandset (Oslo University Hospital, NO) is joined by Prof Jesse Dawson (University of Glasgow, GB), Dr Urs Fischer (University Hospital Basel, CH) and Dr Masatoshi Koga (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, JP) to discuss the findings from their recent paper on "Early versus Later Anticoagulation for Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation" published in the New England Journal of Medicine… View more
Author(s): Linda Joosten Added: 1 year ago
ESC 2023 — Dr Linda Joosten (Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, NL) joins us to discuss the findings of the FRAIL-AF trial. FRAIL-AF is a multicentre, open-label randomised controlled clinical trial which studied frail elderly patients who receive vitamin K antagonist (VKA) treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF). Current clinical guidelines recommend non-vitamin K antagonists … View more
Author(s): Luigi Di Biase Added: 3 months ago
Stay up to date with our video collection covering late-breaking data from AF Symposium 2025 in Boston. Don't miss our short, accessibleExpert Interviews and Highlights of the most pertinent trials. 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
Author(s): Thorsten Hanke Added: 8 months ago
First presented at ESC 2024, this on-demand programme sees Prof Gregory Lip(University of Liverpool, UK) lead a faculty comprisingProf Elena Arbelo (University of Barcelona, ES), ProfThorsten Hanke(Asklepios Klinikum Harburg, DE) andProf Richard Whitlock(McMaster University, CA) review the application of the latest AF guidance in a clinical setting.This case-based programme explores the… View more