It was safe to start direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) therapy without delay after acute ischemic stroke in people with atrial ...

Results of the OPTIMAS trial, the largest trial to address this question, showed that initiation of a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) within 4 days after ischemic stroke associated with AF was ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Trials of direct oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation have excluded patients with acute ischaemic stroke because of concerns over the risk of haemorrhagic ...

Therefore, it is worth discussing whether patients who were not “therapeutically dosed” with VKA should be compared to those who received DOAC in the correct dose, and whether this should be ...