Independent predictors of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review

Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group - Neurology, 2007 - AAN Enterprises
… factors for ischemic stroke in nonanticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation. We … patients
with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation that determined factors independently associated with stroke

Preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation

MD Ezekowitz, JA Levine - Jama, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
… of stroke was 5.6 times greater in patients with atrial fibrillation than that in comparably aged
patients in … secondary prevention in patients who had a stroke while in atrial fibrillation. The …

Stroke patients with atrial fibrillation have a worse prognosis than patients without: data from the Austrian Stroke registry

C Steger, A Pratter, M Martinek-Bregel… - European heart …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Stroke patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have a poorer neurological outcome than stroke
patients without AF. Whether stroke patients with AF also have a higher rate of medical …

Current status of stroke risk stratification in patients with atrial fibrillation

RG Hart, LA Pearce - Stroke, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc
… The 4 most consistent risk factors for stroke in atrial fibrillation patients (ie, prior stroke/TIA, …
factors for stroke among persons without atrial fibrillation. However, the absolute stroke rates …

Atrial fibrillation and stroke: epidemiology

JA Reiffel - The American journal of medicine, 2014 - amjmed.com
… When primary care physicians are presented with a patient with atrial fibrillation (AFib),
there are two concerns. (online video available at: http://education.amjmed.com/video.php? …

Acute stroke with atrial fibrillation: the Copenhagen Stroke Study

HS Jørgensen, H Nakayama, J Reith, HO Raaschou… - Stroke, 1996 - Am Heart Assoc
… stay, and increased discharge rate to nursing homes found in this study for stroke patients
with AF may suggest a substantial beneficial impact from the prevention of AF-induced stroke. …

High prevalence of atrial fibrillation among patients with ischemic stroke

L Friberg, M Rosenqvist, A Lindgren, A Terént… - Stroke, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
… local medical records at hospitals where patients with acute stroke have been admitted. Nor
do the registers rely on the ability of stroke patients to give correct and coherent information …

Atrial fibrillation after acute stroke.

F Vingerhoets, J Bogousslavsky, F Regli, G Van Melle - Stroke, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
… % of patients with other acute cerebral events,12,'5'16 and 2.5% of 1,661 first-stroke patients
from our registry.49 We cannot exclude the possibility that some of our patients with recent …

Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention

GYH Lip, HS Lim - The Lancet Neurology, 2007 - thelancet.com
… : antithrombotic therapy to prevent stroke in patients who have non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
… for preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and no previous history of stroke or …

Functional outcome in stroke patients with atrial fibrillation

M Karataş, A Dilek, H Erkan, N Yavuz, S Sözay… - Archives of physical …, 2000 - Elsevier
… To date, only a few studies have investigated the rehabilitation outcome for stroke survivors
stroke patients, we believe that further clarification of the relationship between AF and stroke