Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
December 2022
Introduction: Diabetes, a high prevalence chronic disease, especially in the elderly, is a risk factor of chronic lower limb wounds, whose management involves screening and treatment of peripheral arterial obstructive disease (PAOD), which must be systematic. Aim : Evaluate the screening and the management of PAOD amongst those patients, hospitalized in a Geriatric Department.
Methods: Observational, retrospective, monocentric study, including all the elderly above 75 years old, with diabetes, and a wound in the lower limb, hospitalized from 01/01/2018 to 29/02/2020 at Henri Mondor hospital in Créteil.
Background: Although a growing number of very elderly patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), multiple conditions, and polypharmacy receive direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), few studies specifically investigated both apixaban/rivaroxaban pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in such patients.
Aims: To investigate: (1) DOAC concentration-time profiles; (2) thrombin generation (TG); and (3) clinical outcomes 6 months after inclusion in very elderly AF in-patients receiving rivaroxaban or apixaban.
Methods: Adage-NCT02464488 was an academic prospective exploratory multicenter study, enrolling AF in-patients aged ≥80 years, receiving DOAC for at least 4 days.