Holter-electrocardiogram-monitoring in patients with acute ischaemic stroke (Find-AFRANDOMISED): an open-label randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 282-290

  Wachter, Rolf ^a,b   Gröschel, Klaus ^c   Gelbrich, Götz ^d   Hamann, Gerhard F ^e   Kermer, Pawel ^f   Liman, Jan ^a   Seegers, Joachim ^g   Wasser, Katrin ^a   Schulte, Anna ^a,b   Jürries, Falko ^a   Messerschmid, Anna ^a,b   Behnke, Nico ^a,b   Gröschel, Sonja ^c   Uphaus, Timo ^c   Grings, Anne ^c   Ibis, Tugba ^c   Klimpe, Sven ^h   Wagner Heck, Michaela ^h   Arnold, Magdalena ^f   Protsenko, Evgeny ^f   Heuschmann, Peter U ^d   Conen, David ⁱ   Weber Krüger, Mark ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e Bezirkskrankenhaus Gunzburg   (Germany)

^f Nordwest Krankenhaus Sanderbusch   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^h DR HORST SCHMIDT KLINIKEN   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EMBOLISM; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HOLTER MONITOR; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85011827588     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(17)30002-9     Document Type: Article

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