Direct oral anticoagulants: Key considerations for use to prevent stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 317-332

  Ment, Jerome ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct oral anticoagulants; Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation; Rivaroxaban; Stroke prevention; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS CLOPIDOGREL; ANDEXANET ALFA; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APIXABAN; CREATININE; DABIGATRAN ETEXILATE; EDOXABAN; IDARUCIZUMAB; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTAMINE SULFATE; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN; ANTITHROMBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTICOAGULATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHA2DS2 VASC SCORE; CHADS2 SCORE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG URINE LEVEL; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONVALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY EXCRETION; UROSEPSIS; COMPLICATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STROKE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTITHROMBINS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FACTOR XA INHIBITORS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PYRAZOLES; PYRIDONES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; WARFARIN;

EID: 84936752824     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/VHRM.S79065     Document Type: Review

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