Long-term anticoagulant therapy requires careful initiation and ongoing management to effectively prevent thromboembolic stroke in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.
How should long-term anticoagulant therapy (warfarin) be initiated and managed in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation?
This article reviews the initiation and management of long-term warfarin therapy for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
A 75-year-old man with diabetes mellitus is found to have chronic atrial fibrillation, and warfarin therapy is begun for the prevention of thromboembolic stroke. How should the anticoagulant therapy be initiated and managed?
Sam Schulman (2003) studied this question. Long-term anticoagulant therapy requires careful initiation and ongoing management to effectively prevent thromboembolic stroke in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.