March 9th, 2018
Podcast 217: Aspirin and rivaroxaban “comparably effective and safe” for prophylaxis after arthroplasty
The EPCAT II trial examined whether aspirin and rivaroxaban were clinically equivalent in the extended prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism after hip or knee replacement. They proved “comparably effective and safe,” according to our guest, Dr. David Anderson, the study’s first author. An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, where the study appeared in […]