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Acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack

There is no clear benefit from immediate anticoagulation d

Why?

  • Patients with embolic stroke who receive immediate anticoagulation compared with waiting 10 days are not clearly less likely to have recurrent embolism, haemorrhagic infarction or die d

Expiry date: October 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   G  Donnan
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , CM   Ball