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- Title
Capsule Commentary on Andrade et al., Clinical Benefit of American College of Chest Physicians versus European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for Stroke Prophylaxis in Atrial Fibrillation.
- Authors
Hussain, Hafiz
- Abstract
The article focuses on cardiology guidelines for stroke prophylaxix in Atrial Fibrillation (AF). Topics include the contraindication for anticoagulation in stroke, intracranial hemorrhages, and extracranial hemorrhages; the use of warfarin drug to prevent stroke, and the use of CHA2DS2-VASc score as a choice of anticoagulation versus aspirin.
- Subjects
ATRIAL fibrillation treatment; STROKE treatment; HEMORRHAGE complications; DRUG therapy; WARFARIN; ASPIRIN
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 6, p833
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-015-3262-1