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A Watchman device, used to help reduce stroke risk in patients.

The Watchman Device with Dr. Greg Von Mering

March 25, 2021 by Alain Bouchard, MD 2 Comments

Implantable heart devices can serve as alternatives to anticoagulants for patients with high stroke risk. Dr. Alain Bouchard and Dr. Greg Von Mering discuss the Watchman device and other similar solutions in this episode of the MyHeart.net Podcast.

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Filed Under: Featured Articles, Podcast, Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Stroke

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  1. WIN FAIRBANK says

    June 26, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    I had a WATCHMAN DEVISE INSTALLED IN NOV ,2020. I SHOWS A 2.5MM LEAK. AM I SAFE TO STOP THE BLOOD THINNERS THAT I CAN’T HANDLE?

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    • Alain Bouchard, MD says

      November 7, 2022 at 10:16 pm

      would discuss with your physician

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Alain Bouchard, MD

Dr. Alain Bouchard is a clinical cardiologist at Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham, AL. He is a native of Quebec, Canada and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He continued as a Research Fellow at the Montreal Heart Institute. He did a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1986 to 1990. He worked at CardiologyPC and Baptist Medical Center at Princeton from 1990-2019. He is now part of the Cardiology Specialists of Birmingham at St. Vincent's Health System, Ascension.

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