Circulation On The Run

This week, please join author Sean Pokorney and Associate Editor Shinya Goto as they discuss the article "Apixaban for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation on Hemodialysis: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial." Dr Carolyn Lam:               Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and Backstage Pass of the journal and its editors. We're your cohost. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Dr Greg Hundley:            And I'm Dr. Greg Hundley, Associate Editor, Director of the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health in Richmond, Virginia. Carolyn, this week's feature, very interesting topic. In patients that have end stage renal disease that require dialysis, questions emerged should we anticoagulate them to prevent stroke, but of course, there's a risk of excess bleeding. Well, this feature discussion today is a study comparing apixaban and warfarin for anticoagulation in exactly this patient population. But before we ge