Do anticoagulants compared to aspirin reduce the recurrence rate in patients with cervical arterial dissection?
Preliminary data showing a high initial recurrence rate in cervical arterial dissection suggests a large-scale trial comparing anticoagulants and aspirin is feasible.
From our data indicating an initial relatively high recurrence rate, a multicenter trial of anticoagulants versus aspirin involving a total of 2000 patients is feasible.
Beletsky et al. (Tue,) studied this question.