@chickenfarmer another recent study on anticoagulants for those who have undergone ablation by Korean EP types affirms that anticoagulants are not any more effective than aspirin for preventing strokes in post ablation patients. Check out ALONE-AF trial. Also check ARTESIA, NOAH-AFNET, LOOP trials which all cast doubt on the use of DOACs for all Afib patients. The ARTESIA trial goes further by breaking down results by CHADVASC scores. These last 3 trials are concerned with those patients with subclinical AFIB/FLUTTER so there’s some controversy but it only points out the fact that the whole AFIB- stroke relationship isn’t as clear cut as we’re told by the general cardiac literature. My EP also is professor so I tend to trust his judgment when he took me off Eliquis. I do keep a ‘pill in the pocket’ in case I have an AFIB/FLUTTER episode of sufficient length- EP says 4 hrs or more.