Heart failure and atrial fibrillation - Does practice meet the anticoagulation guidelines?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 274-275

  Rewiuk, Krzysztof ^a   Wizner, Barbara ^a   Fedyk Łukasik, Małgorzata ^a   Zdrojewski, Tomasz ^b   Opolski, Grzegorz ^c   Dubiel, Jacek S ^a   Ga̧sowski, Jerzy ^a   Grodzicki, Tomasz ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Heart failure; Oral anticoagulation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K;

AGE; ANEMIA; ANTICOAGULATION; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84861097434     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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