Anticoagulation in patients with stroke with infective endocarditis: The sword of damocles

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1799-1800

  Molina, Carlos A ^a   Selim, Magdy H ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anticoagulation; endocarditis

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 79958297416     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.622423     Document Type: Note

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