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Determinants of antithrombotic choice for patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the influence of clinical, radiologic, and echocardiographic characteristics on antithrombotic choice in patients with cryptogenic stroke (CS) and patent foramen ovale (PFO), hypothesizing that features suggestive of paradoxical embolism might lead to greater use of anticoagulation.

Methods

The Risk of Paradoxical Embolism Study combined 12 databases to create the largest dataset of patients with CS and known PFO status. We used generalized linear mixed models with a random effect of component study to explore whether anticoagulation was preferentially selected based on the following: (1) younger age and absence of vascular risk factors, (2) "high-risk" echocardiographic features, and (3) neuroradiologic findings.

Results

A total of 1,132 patients with CS and PFO treated with anticoagulation or antiplatelets were included. Overall, 438 participants (39%) were treated with anticoagulation with a range (by database) of 22% to 54%. Treatment choice was not influenced by age or vascular risk factors. However, neuroradiologic findings (superficial or multiple infarcts) and high-risk echocardiographic features (large shunts, shunt at rest, and septal hypermobility) were predictors of anticoagulation use.

Conclusion

Both antithrombotic regimens are widely used for secondary stroke prevention in patients with CS and PFO. Radiologic and echocardiographic features were strongly associated with treatment choice, whereas conventional vascular risk factors were not. Prior observational studies are likely to be biased by confounding by indication.

SUBMITTER: Thaler DE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4248455 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Determinants of antithrombotic choice for patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke.

Thaler David E DE Ruthazer Robin R Weimar Christian C Serena Joaquín J Mattle Heinrich P HP Nedeltchev Krassen K Mono Marie-Luise ML Di Angelantonio Emanuele E Elkind Mitchell S V MS Di Tullio Marco R MR Homma Shunichi S Michel Patrik P Meier Bernhard B Furlan Anthony J AJ Lutz Jennifer S JS Kent David M DM

Neurology 20141022 21

<h4>Objective</h4>We examined the influence of clinical, radiologic, and echocardiographic characteristics on antithrombotic choice in patients with cryptogenic stroke (CS) and patent foramen ovale (PFO), hypothesizing that features suggestive of paradoxical embolism might lead to greater use of anticoagulation.<h4>Methods</h4>The Risk of Paradoxical Embolism Study combined 12 databases to create the largest dataset of patients with CS and known PFO status. We used generalized linear mixed model ...[more]

PMID: 25339209

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Determinants of antithrombotic choice for patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke.

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Determinants of antithrombotic choice for patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke.

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