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The study was funded by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc, which received FDA approval in October for its blood thinner Pradaxa, a potential alternative to warfarin for preventing strokes linked to nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
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Administration advisory panel voted 7 to 5 in favor of approving a device for closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) that they say is comparable to long-term warfarin therapy for the prevention of stroke in warfarin-eligible patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF).
theHeart.org 2009
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Administration advisory panel voted 7 to 5 in favor of approving a device for closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) that they say is comparable to long-term warfarin therapy for the prevention of stroke in warfarin-eligible patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF).
theHeart.org 2009
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Warfarin is the current standard preventive therapy for nonvalvular Afib, but managing patients with warfarin is notoriously difficult, said Julie Swain, M.D., a cardiovascular surgeon with the FDA.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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- A US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 7 to 5 in favor of approving a device for closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) that they say is comparable to long-term warfarin therapy for the prevention of stroke in warfarin-eligible patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF).
theHeart.org 2009
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It recommended that the device could be approved for "warfarin-eligible" patients with nonvalvular Afib.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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Administration advisory panel voted 7 to 5 in favor of approving a device for closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) that they say is comparable to long-term warfarin therapy for the prevention of stroke in warfarin-eligible patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF).
theHeart.org 2009
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Orlando, FL - Device closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) may provide an alternative to warfarin therapy as a stroke prevention strategy in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
theHeart.org 2009
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Ezekowitz MD, Reilly PA, Nehmiz G, et al. Dabigatran with or without concomitant aspirin compared with warfarin alone inpatients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (PETRO Study).
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Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities it is, to have an entire nonvalvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.
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