Anticoagulation in acute ischemic stroke patients with mechanical heart valves: To bridge or not with heparin. The ESTREM study.
Maurizio PaciaroniValeria CasoMichele RomoliCecilia BecattiniAlexander SalernoCostanza RapilloFanny SimonnetDavide StramboIsabella CanaveroMaria Luisa ZeddeRosario PascarellaSung-Il SohnSimona SaccoRaffaele OrnelloKristian BarlinnDaniela SchoeneJan RahmigMaria Giulia MosconiIlaria Leone De MagistrisAndrea AlbertiMichele VentiGiorgio SilvestrelliAlfonso CicconeMarina PadroniMichele LaudisiAndrea ZiniLuana GentileOdysseas KargiotisGeorgios TsivgoulisRossana TassiFrancesca GuideriMaurizio AcampaLuca MasottiElisa GrifoniAlessandro RoccoMarina DiomediTheodore KarapanayiotidesStefan T EngelterAlexandros A PolymerisAnnaelle ZietzFabio BandiniPietro CaliandroGiuseppe RealeMarco MociAurelia ZauliManuel CappellariAndrea EmilianiAntonio GasparroValeria TerrusoMarina ManninoElisa GiorliDanilo ToniMarco AndrighettiAnne FalcouLina PalaiodimouGeorge NtaiosDimitrios SagrisEfstathia KaragkioziAnastasia AdamouPanagiotis HalvatsiotisYuriy FlominUmberto ScodittiAntonio GenoveseNemanja PopovicLeonardo PantoniFrancesco MeleNicola MolitiernoPiergiorgio LochnerAlessandro PezziniMassimo Del SetteDavide SassosSotirios GiannopoulosMaria KosmidouEvangelos NtaisEnrico Maria LottiVincenzo MastrangeloAlberto ChitiAndrea NaldiPeter VanackerMario FerranteVera VolodinaMichelangelo MancusoNicola GianniniMarco BaldiniKostantinos VadikoliasSofia KitmeridouCarlo Emanuele SaggeseTiziana TassinariValentina SaiaPatrik MichelPublished in: European stroke journal (2023)
Acute ischemic stroke patients with MHV undergoing bridging therapy had a marginally higher risk of ischemic or hemorrhagic events, compared to nonbridging patients.