Treatment patterns in anticoagulant therapy in patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in Belgium: results from the GARFIELD-AF registry.

AF, anticoagulation, NOACs, changing patterns of prescription. We describe baseline data and treatment patterns of patients recruited in Belgium in the Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF). Recruitment began when novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) were introduced and provides a unique picture of changing treatment patterns over time.

Assessing the landscape of percutaneous coronary chronic total occlusion treatment in Belgium and Luxembourg: the Belgian Working Group on Chronic Total Occlusions (BWGCTO) registry.

Important developments in materials, devices, and techniques have improved outcomes of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and resulted in a growing interest in CTO-PCI. The Belgian Working Group on Chronic Total Occlusions BWGCTO) working group aims to assess the evolution within the CTO-PCI landscape over the next years. From May 2016 onwards, patients undergoing CTO-PCI were included in the BWGCTO registry by 15 centres in Belgium and Luxemburg.

Nitrate-stimulated tilt testing enhances the predictive value of the tilt test on the risk of recurrence in patients with suspected vasovagal syncope.

Objective: Nitrate-stimulated tilt testing may be used to diagnose vasovagal syncope and to guide therapy. However, to date the predictive value of the test is undetermined. This study analyses the risk of recurrence of syncope in vasovagal patients on the basis of a nitrate-stimulated tilt result and other clinical factors.