Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

[...]of the approach to perioperative anticoagulation used, patients need to have a normal or nearly normal state of coagulation during surgery, so some increase in the risk of thromboembolism is unavoidable.--Kearon and Hirsh, 1997 (1) Catheter ablation procedures are increasingly being performed f...

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 59; no. 13; pp. 1175 - 1177
Main Author Knight, Bradley P., MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Limited 27.03.2012
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Anticoagulants
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Catheters
Drug therapy
Internal Medicine
periprocedural complications
dabigatran
atrial fibrillation ablation
matched case-control study
anticoagulation
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Summary:[...]of the approach to perioperative anticoagulation used, patients need to have a normal or nearly normal state of coagulation during surgery, so some increase in the risk of thromboembolism is unavoidable.--Kearon and Hirsh, 1997 (1) Catheter ablation procedures are increasingly being performed for patients with medically refractory, symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF). There is also a concern that a practice that deviates from the conventional practices followed for most other surgeries and procedures would be difficult to defend if a complication were to occur. [...]there has been an interest in taking advantage of the benefits of the newer, shorter acting oral anticoagulants such as dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor, around the time of catheter ablation for AF.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2011.11.044