A Controlled Trial of Rivaroxaban after Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement

George D Dangas¹, Jan G P Tijssen¹, Jochen Wöhrle¹+28

• ¹From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (G.D.D., G.G., A.K., R. Mehran); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens (G.D.D.); Amsterdam University Medical Centers-University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (J.G.P.T.), and Cardialysis, Academic Research Organization, Rotterdam (J.G.P.T., A.H.C.G., R.G.M.A.) - both in the Netherlands; the Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm (J.W., J.S.), the Department of Internal Medicine I, St. Johannes Hospital Dortmund, Dortmund (H.M.), the Department of Internal Medicine III, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne (S.B.), the Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg (U.S.), and Bayer, Berlin (K.T.) - all in Germany; the Heart Center, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (L.S., O.D.B.); La Cavale Blanche University Hospital, Cardiology Department, Brest (M.G.), and Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse (D.T.) - both in France; Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (R.R.M.); the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (H.C.H.); the Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, and the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo - all in Oslo (L.G.); the Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria (D.L.); Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, TX (M.M.); the Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of La Paz, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research, Madrid (R. Moreno); the Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (M.V., S.W.); the Department of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hartcentrum Hasselt, and Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Hasselt - all in Hasselt, Belgium (P.V.); Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (R.C.W.); Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Titusville, NJ (P.W., A.A.V.); and Bayer, São Paulo (A.Z.).