Premorbid warfarin use and lower D-dimer levels are associated with a spontaneous early improvement in an atrial fibrillation-related stroke

J Thromb Haemost. 2012 Nov;10(11):2394-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2012.04909.x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Algorithms
  • Atrial Fibrillation / blood*
  • Atrial Fibrillation / complications*
  • Atrial Fibrillation / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / analysis*
  • Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Middle Cerebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Middle Cerebral Artery / drug effects
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • ROC Curve
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Stroke / blood*
  • Stroke / complications*
  • Stroke / drug therapy
  • Thrombosis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Warfarin / chemistry
  • Warfarin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products
  • fibrin fragment D
  • Warfarin