The Watchman device is providing protection from blood clots and strokes for those patients at risk because of their AFib.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -At the What Knot Shoppe in Austinburg, co-owner Stacy Joslin does a lot of heavy lifting and moving furniture. But ever since her atrial fibrillation diagnosis, she’s been on blood thinners. And that’s been a problem.
Her blood thinner also put her at risk for serious bleeding events. Something her doctor Wanted to help her avoid, while still protecting her from a stroke. “More than 90 percent of the time they form in a little pouch called the left atrial appendage. You form a clot in the heart, the heart is pumping blood, that clot can get trafficked or passed up from the heart to the circulatory system and most often goes to the brain, and that’s why it causes so many strokes,” he said.“So what the Watchman device does is it blocks that pouch, and caps the mouth.
Because of various reasons like cost, side effects, the inconvenience of taking them daily, or even noncompliance, because patients don’t want to be on medication daily for the rest of their lives, only about 50 percent of those who are prescribed blood thinners are actually taking them.
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