CardioExchange Archive

CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.

Posts Tagged ‘aspirin’

September 19th, 2010

A Rich OASIS for Your Journal Club

I’m always scouting for papers to discuss in journal club with my students. Earlier this month, I found the perfect pair: two simultaneously published articles from the industry-funded CURRENT–OASIS 7 randomized trial, one in the New England Journal of Medicine and the other in the Lancet. Many of the authors of the two papers were […]

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August 31st, 2010

Apixaban Beats Aspirin for Stroke Prevention in AF

The AVERROES (Apixaban Versus Acetylsalicylic Acid (ASA) to Prevent Strokes) trial randomized 5600 AF patients who were unable to take warfarin to receive either aspirin or apixaban, a factor Xa inhibitor. (Another trial still underway, ARISTOTLE, is a direct comparison of warfarin and apixaban in AF.) AVERROES was stopped early after the Data Monitoring Committee […]

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