Robert Levin, a repeat attendee of the annual Atrial Fibrillation Patient Conference, said he highly recommends the conference to anyone who is living with afib. He’s now afib-free and attends the conference because of the high quality of information (and because it’s fun!). “Do a lot ...
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Among AF patients with CHA2DS2-VASc ≥ 2, 31% and 13% of patients in the Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIED-AF) and Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) II, respectively, were not treated with OACs. Among ...
DOAC, direct oral anticoagulant; NVAF, non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Case–control matching (1:4) was applied according to the three significant clinical characteristics of age, CHADS2 score, and history of cancer (Table 1). We used a propensity score method to adjust for these unbalanced...
Atrial fibrillation is increasingly common with advancing age and is responsible for 10% of the half-million strokes that occur annually in the United States. When a patient presents with atrial fibrillation, the physician's first task is to use the history, physical examination, and electrocardiogr...
“We are pleased with the results from ENSURE-AF, which provide additional scientific information about the use of once-daily edoxaban for peri-cardioversion management of patients with atrial fibrillation,” said Hans Lanz, MD, Executive Director, Global Medical Affairs, Edoxaban. “Daiichi Sankyo ...
Online Health Information Seeking, Low AF-Related Quality of Life, and High Perceived Efficacy in Patient-Physician Interactions in Older Adults with Atrial Fibrillation 来自 Elsevier 喜欢 0 阅读量: 20 作者:S Jordy Mehawej,MD Ajay Mishra,JS Saczynski,ME Waring,D Lessard,HO Abu,V La,MD ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia in patients with stroke history. However, the association between AF and co
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common pathological arrhythmia, and its complications lead to significant morbidity and mortality. However, patients with AF can often go undetected, especially if they are asymptomatic or have a low burden of paroxysms. Identification of those at hig...
the patients felt safe. In a qualitative study of patient experiences with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation at the hospital, Thrysoee et al. found that the patients visiting the hospital were overwhelmed, the information was difficult to understand, and the patients found it difficult to be inv...