Deans' stroke musings: Over-Anticoagulation Linked to Dementia in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Over-Anticoagulation Linked to Dementia in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Something to talk to your doctors about.
http://dgnews.docguide.com/over-anticoagulation-linked-dementia-patients-atrial-fibrillation?overlay=2&
Patients who receive anticoagulation with warfarin and anti-platelet agents such as aspirin appear to be at in increased risk of developing dementia if they are over-anticoagulated more than 25% of the time, researchers reported here at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA).
“There are multiple hypotheses for how over-anticoagulation can cause dementia, possibly because over anti-coagulation might cause some micro-bleeds into the brain,” said Jared Bunch, MD, Intermountain Health System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Patients who were chronically over-anticoagulated -- more than 25% of the time having an International Normalized Ratio (INR) >3 -- had a 5.8% risk of developing dementia during a median of 4 years.

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