Patients with atrial fibrillation have an increased risk of stroke. The treatment of choice has traditionally been anticoagulation. There are newer blood thinners available now. Patients that cannot tolerate or don't want to take blood thinners will have other options soon.
2. • Most common cardiac arrhythmia
• Affects more than 3 million individuals in the US
• Projected to increase to 16 million by 2050
• 5-fold higher risk of stroke
• Over 87% of strokes are thromboembolic
• >90% of thrombus originates in the Left Atrial
Appendage (LAA)
• Stroke is the number one cause of long-term disability
and the third leading cause of death in patients with AF
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Stroke 22(18), 1991
• 500,000 strokes/year in U.S.
• Up to 20% of ischemic strokes occur in
patients with atrial fibrillation
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5. >90% of strokes
in AF patients are
secondary to LAA
emboli
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15. *Hypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure > 160 mmHg.
INR = international normalized ratio.
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HAS-BLED Bleeding Risk Score
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Lip: Thromb Res 118, 2006
• Warfarin still cornerstone of therapy
• Assuming 51 ischemic strokes/1000 pt-yr
• Warfarin prevented 28 strokes at expense of 11
fatal bleeds
• Aspirin prevented 16 strokes at expense
of 6 fatal bleeds
• Warfarin
• 60-70% risk reduction vs no treatment
• 30-40% risk reduction vs aspirin
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17. • Warfarin is not always well-tolerated
• Narrow therapeutic range (INR between 2.0 – 3.0)
• Effectiveness is impacted by interactions with
some foods and medications
• Requires frequent monitoring and dose adjustments
• Less than 50% of patients eligible are being treated with warfarin due to
tolerance or non-compliance issues
• SPORTIF trials
• 60% of patients are within a therapeutic INR range
• 29% have INR levels below 2.0
• 15% have levels above 3.0
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• 55% of eligible AF patients are on warfarin
• Other studies cite warfarin use in AF patients from 17-50%
• Elderly patients with increased absolute risk least likely to be
taking warfarin
• Contraindications 30-40%
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20. What can we offer patients that cannot take oral
anticoagulants?
Or do not want to take OACs
◦ Left Atrial Appendage Closure
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22. SUTURE DELIVERY
DEVICE
GUIDE CANNULA
User
controlled, remote
suture delivery for
precise
placement, confirmatio
n and closure of
targets as large as
40mm wide
Soft-tipped, 4.3mm
guide cannula for
placement and
direction of the
LARIAT Suture
Delivery Device
GUIDE WIRE SYSTEM
Magnetically tipped
guide wires that
connect to each other
to precisely deliver
catheters with minimal
management
OCCLUSION BALLOON
Fluoro and echo
visible, 15mm low
profile occlusion
balloon compatible with
8.5F access catheters
SUTURE TIGHTENER
Eliminates operator
variability in suture
tightening and assures
consistency in closure
outcomes
SUTURE CUTTER
Remote suture cutter
with easy-load threader
designed to terminate
remnant suture without
risk to the knot
TM TM TM TM TM TM
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33. Device subject takes
warfarinPreimplant interval
Day 0
Control subject takes warfarin
Device subject gets implant
Device subject has ceased
warfarin
Ongoing to 5 years
Randomize
Day 0
Day 45
postimplantDay 2-14 Ongoing to 5 years
DeviceControl
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34. • Reasons for remaining on warfarin therapy after 45-days:
• Observation of flow in the LAA (n = 30)
• Physician Order (n = 13)
• Other (n = 9)
Visit
Watchman
N/Total (%)
45 day 349/401 (87.0)
6 month 347/375 (92.5)
12 month 261/280 (93.2)
24 month 95/101 (94.1)
87% of implanted subjects were able to cease warfarin at 45
days and the rate further increased at later time points
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35. • Primary Efficacy Endpoint
• All stroke: ischemic or hemorrhagic
• deficit with symptoms persisting more than 24 hours or
• symptoms less than 24 hours confirmed by CT or MRI
• Cardiovascular and unexplained death: includes sudden
death, MI, CVA, cardiac arrhythmia and heart failure
• Systemic embolization
• Primary Safety Endpoint
• Device embolization requiring retrieval
• Pericardial effusion requiring intervention
• Cranial bleeds and gastrointestinal bleeds
• Any bleed that requires ≥ 2uPRBC
• NB: Primary effectiveness endpoint contains safety events
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36. • Key Inclusion Criteria
• Age 18 years or older
• Documented non-valvular AF
• Eligible for long-term warfarin therapy, and no other
conditions that would require long-term warfarin therapy
• Calculated CHADS2 score > 1
• Key Exclusion Criteria
• NYHA Class IV Congestive Heart Failure
• ASD and/or atrial septal repair or closure device
• Planned ablation procedure within 30 days of potential
WATCHMAN Device implant
• Symptomatic carotid disease
• LVEF < 30%
• TEE Criteria: Suspected or known intracardiac thrombus (dense spontaneous echo
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42. Oral Anticoagulation is still considered first
line therapy
Currently available technologies are reserved
for patients with Contraindications to oral
anticoagulants
◦ Lariat Device
Watchman device
◦ Great results in patients that were eligible to take
warfarin
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43. • Long-term treatment with OAC is effective, but presents
difficulties and risk
• Left Atrial Appendage
• In PROTECT AF, hemorrhagic stroke risk is significantly
lower with the device.
• In PROTECT AF, all cause stroke and all cause mortality risk
are non-inferior to warfarin
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44. Many LAA closure devices are being tested
and should be approved soon
In the near future, it may be considered first
line therapy
Present:
◦ Good alternative for patients at higher risk for
stroke who cant tolerate OAC
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