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When do you start anticoagulation for secondary prevention in patients with HFrEF and history of embolic strokes?

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Neurology · Brown University

Current guidelines consider anticoagulation in patients with reduced EF as class III (no benefit and possibility of harm), which has not changed significantly since WARCEF was published. The most recent randomized large trial, COMMANDER HF, looked at primary stroke prevention (among other thrombotic...

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