Once versus twice daily direct oral anticoagulants in patients with recent stroke and atrial fibrillation.
Alexandros A PolymerisAnnaelle ZietzFabian SchaubLouisa MeyaChristopher TraenkaSebastian ThilemannBenjamin WagnerLisa HertValerian L AltersbergerDavid Julian SeiffgeFlurina LyrerTolga DittrichInes PiotJosefin KaufmannLea BaroneLudvig DahlheimSophie FlammerNikolaos S AvramiotisNils PetersGian Marco De MarchisLeo H BonatiHenrik GensickeStefan T EngelterPhilippe A LyrerPublished in: European stroke journal (2022)
The overall benefit of DOAC over VKA seems to apply to both QD and BID DOAC in AF patients with a recent stroke, without clear evidence that one DOAC dosing regimen is more advantageous than the other.