The CHADS2 stroke risk scores 0 or 1 assign more than one-third of patients in atrial fibrillation with stroke to low or intermediate risk not mandating oral anticoagulation, according to new research ...
March 21, 2012 (London, Ontario, Canada) — The Canadian Cardiovascular Society has updated its guidelines on atrial fibrillation to reflect some major new findings that have been reported during the ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk of systemic embolization in patients with valvular heart disease and AF is substantially higher than in ...
1 Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 3116 MFCB, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA. 2 Division of Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular ...
Patients with elevated CHADS2 scores were at greater risk for stroke or systemic embolism, bleeding and death when treated with oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation, according to results of a ...
More than a quarter of atrial fibrillation patients with a CHADS2 score of one could be reclassified as truly low risk and not given anticoagulation, a new study suggests. Under current guidance, ...
The CHADS2 score is a clinical prediction rule for estimating stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, but the usefulness of the score in predicting risk of bleeding on anticoagulants is ...
In contrast, a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 identifies a subgroup of patients with very low stroke risk unlikely to benefit from anticoagulation treatment. Professor Nabauer said: "AF is the most frequent ...
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