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  • ASH 2014 Highlights: Thrombosis and Anticoagulation

    Stephan Moll, MD writes… The annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting took place in Dec 2014 in San Francisco.  A summary of the clinically relevant thrombosis and anticoagulation presentation and abstracts is presented here (Top 10 ASH Highlights).   Disclosure: I have been a consultant to Portola, Daiichi, Janssen, and Boehringer-Ingelheim.  Last updated: Jan…

  • International Coagulation Meeting (ISTH 2013): Highlights

    Stephan Moll, MD writes…  A major international coagulation conference, the bi-annual meeting of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH; http://www.isth.org), took place in Amsterdam, Holland, from June 29th to July 4th, 2013.  The clinically relevant highlights about thrombosis and anticoagulation are summarized below.

  • Top 10 Publications on Thrombosis and Anticoagulation from 2012

    Stephan Moll writes… 2012 has been a year with significant progress in the field of venous thromboembolism and anticoagulation.  The three most noteworthy, clinically relevant developments were probably (a) the publication of the new ACCP (American College of Chest Physician) guidelines on antithrombotic therapy in February 2012; (b)  The FDA-approval of rivaroxaban (Xarelto) in November 2012 for the acute…

  • ASH 2011: Highlights in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation

    The annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) took place in San Diego from Dec 10-13, 2011.  Abstracts on thrombosis and anticoagulation that I found  interesting and clinically relevant  are summarized and put into a clinical perspective in this summary document.  Only one abstract was, in my assessment, clinical-practice-changing – abstract #543: “Aspirin after…