Atrial Fibrillation on Patients with Vascular Dementia: A Fundamental Target for Correct Management
Brain Sciences, 2020 Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for cerebrovascular diseases and vascular dementia (VAD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the adherence to anticoagulant therapy guidelines in patients with dementia and AF on the ...
Giovanna Viticchi +7 more
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Allosteric Inhibition of Factor XIIIa. Non-Saccharide Glycosaminoglycan Mimetics, but Not Glycosaminoglycans, Exhibit Promising Inhibition Profile [PDF]
, 2016 Factor XIIIa (FXIIIa) is a transglutaminase that catalyzes the last step in the coagulation process. Orthostery is the only approach that has been exploited to design FXIIIa inhibitors.
Afosa, Daniel K. +4 more
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Threats to safe transitions from hospital to home: a consensus study in North West London primary care. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Transitions between healthcare settings are vulnerable points for patients. AIM: To identify key threats to safe patient transitions from hospital to primary care settings.
Ashrafian, H. +5 more
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A prospective survey of the persistence of warfarin or NOAC in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a COmparison study of Drugs for symptom control and complication prEvention of Atrial Fibrillation (CODE-AF) [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2020 Background/Aims Efforts to reduce stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have focused on increasing physician adherence to oral anticoagulant (OAC) guidelines; however, the high early discontinuation rate of vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) is a ...
Hyeongsoo Kim +15 more
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Hematology, 2001 Abstract Despite refinements and standardization in the use of anticoagulants, many problems remain for clinicians. Dr. Crowther describes appropriate starting and maintenance doses of warfarin, factors accounting for inter- and intra-observer variability and importantly, the management of the over-anticoagulated patients and bleeding ...
J A, Ginsberg +3 more
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Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2018 Much new evidence on oral anticoagulation has come to light in recent years. Non-vitamin-K-dependent oral anti- coagulants (NOAC) have been developed and have been introduced into clinical practice. In this review, we present the current state of the evidence on anticoagulation for various indications with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) and with NOAC.This
Ertunc, Altiok, Nikolaus, Marx
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Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020 Background There is limited information on real‐world practice versus current clinical practice guidelines for oral anticoagulant reversal before emergency surgery.
Jerrold H. Levy +4 more
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Midterm outcomes of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with cardiac tamponade
Journal of Arrhythmia, 2019 Background Cardiac tamponade is a serious complication of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the outcomes of catheter ablation in patients of cardiac tamponade are unknown.
Yoshiaki Yui +8 more
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Developing a complex intervention to improve prescribing safety in primary care:mixed methods feasibility and optimisation pilot study [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives (A) To measure the extent to which different candidate outcome measures identified high-risk prescribing that is potentially changeable by the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) intervention.(B) To explore the value of ...
Dreischulte, Tobias +2 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims This study aimed to explore the relationship between stress‐induced hyperglycemia (SIH) and in‐hospital medical complications in patients with acute stroke. Methods We enrolled 865,765 patients with acute stroke from the Chinese Stroke Center Alliance cohort.
Xintong Song +6 more
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