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      Laboratory Assessment of the Anticoagulant Activity of Apixaban in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kyriakou, Elias; Katogiannis, Konstantinos; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Giallouros, George; Rapti, Evdoxia; Taichert, Maria; Pantavou, Katerina; Gialeraki, Argiri; Kousathana, Foteini; Poulis, Aristarchos; Tsantes, Andreas G.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Kapsimali, Violetta; Tsivgoulis, Georgios; Tsantes, Argirios E. (2018)
      Our aim is to determine the most appropriate laboratory tests, besides anti-factor Xa (anti-FXa) chromogenic assays, to estimate the degree of anticoagulation with apixaban and compare it with that of rivaroxaban in ...
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      Laboratory Assessment of the Anticoagulant Activity of Dabigatran 

      Kyriakou, Elias; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Stylos, D.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Papadakis, I.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kokoris, Styliani; Kalantzis, Dimitrios; Economopoulou, Christine; Kopterides, Petros; Lekakis, John; Tsantes, Argirio E. (2015)
      Background: Our aim was to identify laboratory assays in order to assess the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran etexilate (DE). Methods: Twenty patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation treated on DE (110 mg per os ...
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      Percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure for secondary stroke prevention: Network meta-analysis 

      Tsivgoulis, Georgios; Katsanos, Aristeidis H.; Mavridis, Dimitris; Frogoudaki, Alexandra; Vrettou, Agathi-Rosa; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Parissis, John; Deftereos, Spyridon; Karapanayiotides, Theodore; Palaiodimou, Lina; Filippatou, Angeliki; Perren, Fabienne; Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios; Alexandrov, Anne W.; Mitsias, Panayiotis D.; Alexandrov, Andrei V. (2018)
      OBJECTIVE: Current guidelines report no benefit for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure compared to medical treatment in patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke (IS) or TIA. Two recent randomized controlled clinical trials ...