Prof Camm was honoured with the AFNET Lecture Award at the AFNET general meeting during the DGK 2025 annual conference in Mannheim. In this document you can see his lecture at the award ceremony.
We are pleased to present you our bookelt on the occasion of our 20th anniversary.
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Is early rhythm control in atrial fibrillation care cost-effective? An analysis based on the EAST – AFNET 4 trial
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) benefit from early rhythm control therapy. It reduces cardiovascular deaths, strokes, and other adverse outcomes by 20% compared to usual care. The beneficial effects of early rhythm control were shown by the pan-European EAST – AFNET 4 trial and confirmed by other large health studies. However, what is the price of the new treatment strategy? A cost-effectiveness analysis revealed: the health benefits of early rhythm control come at reasonable additional costs. The analysis was published today in EP Europace, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) [1].
In the AXADIA – AFNET 8 trial, oral anticoagulation with the non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) Apixaban appeared equally safe and effective as vitamin K antagonists (VKA) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and severe chronic kidney disease. The results were presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) congress on 06.11.2022 in Chicago, USA [1] and simultaneously published in Circulation [2].
AXADIA – AFNET 8 (A Safety Study Assessing Oral Anticoagulation with ApiXAban versus Vitamin KAntagonists in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and End-Stage Kidney Disease on Chronic HemoDIAlysis Treatment) is an investigator-initiated trial with the objective of improving oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation and chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis. It compared the NOAC Apixaban to VKA in these multimorbid patients.
The design paper was successfully published in “Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine”. Get access to the paper here.
