Real-World Management Strategies of Anticoagulated Atrial Fibrillation Patients After a Clinically Significant Bleeding Episode.
Philippe BrouillardEl Hadji DialloJean-Bernard MassonJean-Marc RaymondMounir RiahiBrian PotterRémi KouzJeannot PotvinPublished in: The Canadian journal of cardiology (2024)
This real-life cohort reveals that clinicians frequently downgrade or discontinue long-term thromboembolic protection after a bleeding event despite current guideline recommendations to the contrary, and downgrading resulted in bleeding risk similar to OA.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- left atrial
- catheter ablation
- oral anticoagulants
- ejection fraction
- heart failure
- left atrial appendage
- newly diagnosed
- direct oral anticoagulants
- palliative care
- prognostic factors
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- knee osteoarthritis
- patient reported outcomes
- left ventricular
- venous thromboembolism