Tag: anticoagulation
Apixaban associated with lower risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in AF patients...
Use of apixaban was associated with a lower risk of gastrointestinal bleed and similar rates of ischaemic stroke or systemic embolism, intracranial haemorrhage and...
Portola Pharmaceuticals unveils data on Andexxa in patients with multiple types...
Portola Pharmaceuticals announced new data that they say reinforces the value of Andexxa (coagulation factor Xa , inactivated-zhzo). The company statement outlines that the...
Patients with atrial fibrillation who are frail or have cognitive impairment...
Malini Madhavan (Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA) and others reported the results of a study in American Heart Journal that found...
Re-evaluate use of anticoagulation in patients with atrial flutter
A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, indicates that patients with atrial flutter have a lower incidence of stroke than patients with atrial...
ACC 2017: Uninterrupted dabigatran performs better than warfarin in atrial fibrillation...
Results from the RE-CIRCUIT study have shown that uninterrupted dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim), was associated with fewer bleeding complications than uninterrupted warfarin before, during...
AHA 2016: Low-dose rivaroxaban reduces clinically significant bleeding in PCI patients...
Two drug regimens involving low doses of rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Bayer)—one with a 15mg once daily dose of the drug and a P2Y12 inhibitor and...
ESC 2016: Edoxaban is safe and effective in AF patients undergoing...
ENSURE-AF, the largest prospective, randomised clinical trial to date of anticoagulation for electrical cardioversion in non-valvular atrial fibrillation, has shown that edoxaban is an...