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Poor Quality of Warfarin Treatment Increases the Risk of All Types of Intracranial Hemorrhage in Atrial Fibrillation.
CONCLUSIONS: Poor control of warfarin treatment was associated with elevated risk of ICH. Approximately half of the ICH were traumatic, mainly subdural. PMID: 30686804 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Circulation Journal - January 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Tiili P, Putaala J, Mehtälä J, Khanfir H, Niiranen J, Korhonen P, Raatikainen P, Lehto M Tags: Circ J Source Type: research

Anticoagulation therapy among patients presenting to the emergency department with symptomatic atrial fibrillation – the FinFib2 study
Conclusion: These data showed that OAC was prescribed frequently to patients with symptomatic AF and risk factors for stroke. However, in patients using warfarin, international normalized ratio was not at the therapeutic level in a large proportion of the patients with previously diagnosed AF.
Source: European Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 30, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research