Superior Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Compared to Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Underlying Cancer: A National Veterans Affairs Database Study

Abhishek C. Sawant,Arnav Kumar,Wilmon McCray,Sheldon Tetewsky,Linda Parone,Srilekha Sridhara,Meghana Prakash Hiriyur Prakash,Gary Tse,Tong Liu,Nidhi Kanwar,Aishwarya Bhardwaj,Sahoor Khan,Christopher Manion,Ankush Lahoti,Ashish Pershad,Peter Elkin,John Corbelli

Superior Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Compared to Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Underlying Cancer: A National Veterans Affairs Database Study

2019

Abhishek C. Sawant
Arnav Kumar
Wilmon McCray
Sheldon Tetewsky
Linda Parone
Srilekha Sridhara
Meghana Prakash Hiriyur Prakash
Gary Tse
Tong Liu
Nidhi Kanwar
Aishwarya Bhardwaj
Sahoor Khan
Christopher Manion
Ankush Lahoti
Ashish Pershad
Peter Elkin
John Corbelli

Background Studies evaluating safety of warfarin and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are lacking.

Keywords:

Cardiology
Atrial fibrillation
Diabetes mellitus
Warfarin
Veterans Affairs
Internal medicine
Emergency medicine
Medicine
Cancer
Apixaban
Stroke
Dabigatran
Rivaroxaban

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