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When do you start anticoagulation in a patient with cardioembolic CVA secondary to new onset atrial fibrillation with hemorrhagic conversion?

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Neurology · Brown University Medical School
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Those are great questions and there is no right answer. My general practice is to delay anticoagulation beyond the standard 3-14 days initiation period when there is hemorrhage. I would wait longer if the hemorrhage is parenchymal as opposed to petechial but in both cases, I performed follow up scan...

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