Brain Bleed Size Affects Therapy in Afib Patients

Therapies Saturday, May 5th, 2012

By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today, Published: April 27, 2012.

NEW ORLEANS — The size of the brain bleed appears to determine which medications, if any, are given to atrial fibrillation patients after an intracerebral hemorrhage, a retrospective study showed.

Patients with a brain bleed that averaged 2.39 cc were started on warfarin post bleed; those with an average brain bleed of 8.56 cc received anti-platelet therapy, but those who had an average hemorrhage size of 28.9 cc were given no treatment post bleed (P=0.04 for both comparisons), according to Nicholas Perros, BA, a second-year medical student at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. Read more

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