DOACs vs VKAs in thrombotic APS - Dr Jean Connors & Dr Behnood Bikdeli

Send us Fan MailIn this interview, two of the authors of the paper Direct oral anticoagulants vs vitamin-K antagonists in thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Dr Jean Connors and Dr Benhood Bikdeli, provide listeners with an overview of their systematic review and meta-analysis that evaluated the efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) compared to vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) in patients with thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome. The authors searched through three databases (PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) and found four eligible randomized controlled trials with a total of 472 patients. Our podcast guests discuss the results of the study and the clinical implications.  About our guests:Dr Jean M Connors: Jean M. Connors, MD is a hematology attending at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; the Medical Director of the Anticoagulation Management Services, and the Hemostatic Antithrombotic Stewardship Program; and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received a medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, completed her residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boson, as well as fellowships in transfusion medicine and hematology & oncology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.Dr. Connors is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Basic to Translational Science. She is a member of or holds a leadership role in many professional societies, including ASH and ISTH. She has participated in numerous clinical trials for patients with venous thrombosis in cancer, and anticoagulation questions in general.Dr Benhood Bikdeli:Behnood Bikdeli, MD, MS is a clinician-investigator, with training in cardiology and in vascular medicine who is particularly interested in thrombotic diseases. He is an Associate Physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator at Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). His research has been funded by the NIH, the American Heart Association, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and others. Dr Bikdeli has coauthored over 180 publications, which have been published in journals including Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the British Medical Journal, and others. Dr. Bikdeli was the lead author of two international consensus documents related to thrombosis in COVID-19, is the joint principal investigator of the INSPIRATION/ INSPIRATION-S randomized controlled trial, and is an Associate Editor for Thrombosis Research. Ref:Khairani, C. D., Bejjani, A., Piazza, G., Jimenez, D., Monreal, M., Chatterjee, S., ... & Bikdeli, B. (2022). Direct oral anticoagulants vs vitamin-K antagonists in thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.Follow us on Twitter:@thrombosiscan@connors_mdSupport the showhttps://thrombosiscanada.caRegister today for our upcoming conference on November 7, 2026 in Montreal at https://thrombosiscanada.ca/2026ConferenceTake a look at our healthcare professional and patient resources, videos and publications on thrombosis from the expert members of Thrombosis Canada