Initiation of anticoagulants is not linked to a reduced risk for ischemic stroke in older patients with atrial fibrillation, ...

Atrial fibrillation patients with mental health conditions are less likely to be eligible for warfarin receipt, and those who are eligible receive warfarin at lower rates. Objectives: To characterize ...

As one of the most powerful independent risk factors for ischemic stroke and the most clinically relevant arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF) poses a serious clinical and public health threat as the ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2008;42(4):523-532. The Japanese Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation-Embolism Secondary Prevention trial assessed secondary stroke prevention by comparing low-dose and ...

MUNICH, Germany—Among patients undergoing TAVR for the treatment of aortic stenosis, male sex, moderate-to-severe renal failure, and atrial fibrillation are independent predictors of death at 3 years, ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation who had a drug-eluting stent implanted at least 1 year prior, oral anticoagulation alone was noninferior to oral anticoagulation plus clopidogrel, researchers ...

anticoagulant-0415 Anticoagulants are associated with an increased risk for bleeding, but for most patients, the benefits outweigh the bleeding risk. Most women and people older than 65 years with ...

It’s time to do an update on the treatment of atrial fibrillation. It’s been a while, and there are worthy things to report from the real world. Always start with basics: The most important aspect of ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia that significantly elevates the risk of thromboembolic events, most notably ischaemic stroke. Anticoagulation therapy has long been a ...

A 76-year-old man on dabigatran for rate-controlled atrial fibrillation had follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) ...

We have all met patients with atrial fibrillation being treated with a vitamin K antagonist (VKA) who lament the inconvenience of regular INR checks, consider their quality of life impaired, and may ...