Do you plan to have an afib catheter ablation? By joining the VIBRANT-AF Study before your catheter ablation, you can contribute your data to an effectiveness study that will improve the care of afib patients having catheter ablations. This study is being done at the University of California at San Francisco by Dr. Greg Marcus, …
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If you’re new to our community, please check out these tools when deciding whether to take blood thinners. Even if you have used them previously, things may have changed about your afib, so it may be worth looking at them again. These tools come from the ENHANCE-AF (Engaging Patients to Help Achieve Increased Patient Choice …
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Patient-Relevant Bleeding Events Among Patients Taking Anticoagulant Medication was recently presented at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis’ (ISTH) annual meeting in Montreal. Anthos Therapeutics, in collaboration with StopAfib.org and the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA), presented new data from a survey of afib and VTE patients about the impact of so-called “minor bleeding” on …
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Some new tools are available for your use in deciding whether to take blood thinners. These tools come from the ENHANCE-AF (Engaging Patients to Help Achieve Increased Patient Choice and Engagement for AF Stroke Prevention) Trial that our founder helped with. The American Heart Association funded the trial, the principal investigators were at Stanford University, …
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Since today is Giving Tuesday, we’re asking for your help. Giving Tuesday is the time of year when people around the world support what matters most to them. We’re not asking for donations for us but instead are asking for your support for patient-driven afib research. At the past two Get in Rhythm. Stay in …
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Giving Tuesday is the time of year when people around the world support what matters most to them. That usually means giving donations to nonprofit organizations such as ours. But, we are not asking for donations for us. Instead, we are asking for your help in supporting afib research—patient-initiated and patient-driven afib research. Let me …
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Giving Tuesday is the time of year when people around the world support what matters most to them. That usually means giving donations to nonprofit organizations such as ours. But, we are not asking for donations for us. Instead, we are asking for your help in supporting afib research—patient-initiated and patient-driven afib research. Let me …
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A favorite presenter at the Get in Rhythm. Stay in Rhythm.® Atrial Fibrillation Patient Conferences for the past two years has been Professor Bianca Brundel, PhD, from the physiology department at the Amsterdam University Medical Center in The Netherlands. Dr. Brundel shared with us information on testing how toxic triggers drive afib progression and how …
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Recently, we asked afib patients in the US to ask Medicare to preserve their ability to get a catheter ablation when needed. Unfortunately, that comment period closed in early September, but we have another opportunity to influence this. Congress can still comment. Therefore, you have another chance to make your opinion known to your Congressional …
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During National Afib Month, Join us for a Restoring Life’s Rhythm Webinar For National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, I'm excited to moderate two free afib webinars being hosted by Medtronic. The September 20, 2022 webinar features Dr. Amin Al-Ahmad, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia in Austin, TX. The September 24, 2022 webinar features …
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