Abstract:Historically, in high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease, anticoagulants have been used in order to reduce the risk of stroke or other ischemic complications. However, despite this seemingly simple solution, drug selection and dosage control may provide a unique challenge when it comes to the anticoagulation therapy of individual patients. In this case report, a patient with multiple underlying conditions and two previous stroke episodes was admitted due to decompensated heart failure and was treated wi… Show more
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