Should Patients With Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack With Atrial Fibrillation and Microbleeds Be Anticoagulated?

Stroke. 2017 Dec;48(12):3408-3412. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018467. Epub 2017 Nov 7.

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (A.S., M.S., R.G.H.); Stroke and Cognition Program, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (A.S., M.S., R.G.H.); and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Stroke Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.C.). ashkan.shoamanesh@phri.ca.
² From the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (A.S., M.S., R.G.H.); Stroke and Cognition Program, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (A.S., M.S., R.G.H.); and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Stroke Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.C.).

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Keywords: anticoagulants; atrial fibrillation; follow-up studies; magnetic resonance imaging; risk.

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