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DOACs Reduce Stroke but Not Major Bleeding in Frail, Elderly AF Patients on Warfarin
Added: 8 months ago Source:  Radcliffe Cardiology
The decision to switch frail, elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) from a stable vitamin K antagonist (VKA) regimen to a direct-acting oral anticoagulant (DOAC) remains a subject of clinical debate. A new substudy from the COMBINE-AF dataset provides clarity, suggesting that while the switch reduces severe outcomes like stroke and death, it does not lower the risk of major bleeding and… View more

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ESC 24: The GUARD-AF Trial
Author(s): Renato D Lopes Added: 1 year ago
ESC Congress 24 — AF screening with a wearable ECG device increases diagnosis by over 50% but did not significantly reduce hospitalisation rates for stroke.We are joined onsite at ESC Congress 2024 by Dr Renato Lopes (Duke University Medical Center, NC) to discuss the findings from the GUARD-AF Trial (NCT04126486, Bristol-Myers Squibb), which was designed to determine if screening for undiagnosed… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

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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
Michael Fu
Job title: Professor, Principal Investigator, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist
Professor Michael Fu is currently a nucleus member of working group of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, Heart Failure Association, European Society of Cardiology, and an nucleus member of the National Working Group of Heart Failure in Sweden. Michael Fu is an expert in heart failure with research focus on epidemiology, clinical phenotype, prognosis and its risk factors,… View more
Job title: Director of Cardiac Services
Venice Arrhythmias 2026
Start date: Oct 31, 2026 End date: Oct 29, 2026
Venice Arrhythmias is a long‑running, biennial international workshop dedicated to cardiac arrhythmias and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, held in Venice, Italy. It brings together leading electrophysiologists, cardiologists and allied professionals to discuss state‑of‑the‑art diagnosis and management of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, device therapy and pacing. Sessions include debates,… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
John McNeill
Job title: Professor and head of School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide Professor McNeil undertook specialist training to become qualified as a consultant in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. He completed a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at Melbourne University and was awarded a National Heart Foundation overseas postgraduate research scholarship to study epidemiology at the London School of… View more
Job title: Chief of the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit at the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Medicine
Prakash Deedwania
Job title: Professor of Medicine
Dr Prakash C Deedwania is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. He is Chief of the Cardiology Division and the Director of Cardiovascular Research for VACCHCS/ UCSF Medical Education Program, Fresno and also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto. Dr Deedwania also serves on the Guideline Committee of Heart… View more