Book chapter
Anticoagulant Treatment
Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, pp.214-218
Elsevier Inc, Second Edition
2014
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385157-4.00400-0
Abstract
Anticoagulants are a component of medical management of patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease. Parenteral agents, such as heparin or the low-molecular-weight heparins, are of established utility in preventing deep vein thrombosis among bedridden patients with recent stroke. However, they are not useful in lowering the risk of early recurrent stroke, in halting neurological worsening, or in improving neurological outcomes after ischemic stroke. The vitamin K antagonists and thrombin inhibitors lower the risk of thromboembolism among patients with high-risk cardiac diseases, including atrial fibrillation. These agents are not effective in preventing ischemic events secondary to arterial disease.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Anticoagulant Treatment
- Creators
- H.P Adams - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, pp.214-218
- Edition
- Second Edition
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-385157-4.00400-0
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068232802771
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