-
Comment Letter
Is warfarin still underused in patients with atrial fibrillation? A major threat to treatment benefit.
- Oben Baysan, Mehmet Yokusoglu, and Baris Bugan.
- Int. J. Cardiol. 2010 Oct 29;144(3):439-40.
AbstractAtrial fibrillation may cause thromboembolic events and the risk of thromboembolic events increase with the number of clinical and echocardiographic risk factors. Although the benefit of anticoagulant therapy in preventing thromboembolic events was clearly shown, a significant number of patients with atrial fibrillation were not under anticoagulant therapy. However, whatever the patient's reason for warfarin underutilisation, probably it is the main obstacle for reducing stroke risk in atrial fibrillation. Consequently, it makes the use of any risk factor calculation useless.Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..