Tag: atrial fibrillation

Study shows LAAO reduces major bleeding and mortality compared with NOACs in high-risk AF patients

Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk (Aarhus, Denmark) speaks to Cardiovascular News about a propensity score...

Wearable necklace-ECG can detect abnormal heart rhythm

A necklace that detects abnormal heart rhythm will be showcased for the first time on EHRA Essen...

Left atrial appendage closure associated with a decreased stroke risk in AF patients

Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) via implanted device was associated with a decreased risk o...

TCT 2019: Apixaban plus a P2Y12 inhibitor is the optimal strategy for AF with ACS and/or PCI

A prespecified analysis of data from the AUGUSTUS study, released at late-breaking session at th...

New Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science established

The Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, an alliance between academia and the NHS, was e...

Patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation after TAVI have highest risk of complications

Amit N Vora (Duke University Medical Center/the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, USA) a...

Short-term DAPT is feasible for patients undergoing percutaneous LAA closure

Felix Weise (Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt, Germany) and others report in Eu...

New-onset atrial fibrillation after CABG significantly increases the risk of death and stroke in left main patients

New data from the EXCEL trial, which found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was non...

Apple and Stanford Medicine launch app-based arrhythmia study

Apple has launched the Apple Heart Study app, a first-of-its-kind research study using Apple Watch’s...

ESC 2017: Case builds for dropping aspirin from triple therapy in atrial fibrillation patients post PCI

The RE-DUAL PCI trial indicates that dual therapy with the non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoa...

Left atrial appendage thrombus may increase the risk of stroke after TAVI

Sonny Palmer (St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia) and others report in JACC: Cardiovasc...

Patient enrolment complete in study assessing use of dabigatran atrial fibrillation patients undergoing PCI

  Patient enrolment into the international Phase IIIb RE-DUAL PCI study is complete. The...

St Jude Medical launches trial of Amplatzer Amulet left atrial appendage occluder

The St Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) trial, which will ev...

ESC and EACTS launch first collaborative atrial fibrillation guidelines

The first European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation developed in collab...

Rose Medical Center among first hospitals in Colorado to offer Watchman

Rose Medical Center has become one of the first hospitals in Colorado (USA) to offer patients wi...