Trends in oral anticoagulant choice for acute stroke patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in Japan: the SAMURAI-NVAF study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large clinical trials are lack of data on non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants for acute stroke patients.

Aim

To evaluate the choice of oral anticoagulants at acute hospital discharge in stroke patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and clarify the underlying characteristics potentially affecting that choice using the multicenter Stroke Acute Management with Urgent Risk-factor Assessment and Improvement-NVAF registry (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01581502).

Method

The study included 1192 acute ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (527 women, 77·7 ± 9·9 years old) between September 2011 and March 2014, during which three nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant oral anticoagulants were approved for

SUBMITTER: Toyoda K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964913 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature