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How effective is treatment for stroke caused by AF?
Dr Ali Sheikh discusses treatment for stroke caused by Atrial Fibrillation
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If you are found to have had a stroke because of atrial fibrillation, if you then take the right medications, how much does that reduce your chances of having a further stroke? Right, so what type of stroke is that? If it's an ischemic stroke leading to an atrial fibrillation, the best treatment option is to take anticoagulation, which will be started after a couple of days to two weeks. the risk will be reduced by 70 percent. This is more or less same with Warfarin or with the new anticoagulants. In hemorrhagic stroke patients who have atrial fibrillation where they can't take blood thinners due to some underlying vascular malformations or angiopathies, they can have a non-pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation such as alloclosure devices like a a watchman device.
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