Prevalence, main determinants, and early outcome of patients with atrial fibrillation hospitalized with ischemic stroke: evaluation of the value of risk assessment scores for predicting risk of stroke or major bleeding following anticoagulation therapy.

CONCLUSION: The patients with atrial fibrillation hospitalized with ischemic stroke showed an important absolute risk of further stroke and early mortality. Despite substantiated advantages of warfarin prophylaxis, its limited application is still very common. PMID: 26422431 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26422431?dopt=Abstract

Source: Acta Bio-Medica : Atenei Parmensis - October 4, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sadeghi R, Parsa Mahjoob M, Asadollahi M, Abbasi Z Tags: Acta Biomed Source Type: research