STROKE PREVENTION IN NON-VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. WHAT ROCKET AF STUDY RESULTS SAY
https://doi.org/10.21518/2079-701X-2017-12-154-160
Abstract
Long-term (indefinitely long) use of oral anticoagulants is the most efficient method of medical prevention of cardioembolic complications of atrial fibrillation (AF). This approach is superior to the effectiveness of antiplatelet agents (as monotherapy by acetylsalicylic acid and its combination with clopidogrel). This summary will present the facts that determined ideas about the place of one of the oral anticoagulants of direct action – rivaroxaban – in the prevention of cardioembolic complications in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. We are talking about a randomized, controlled study ROCKET AF, the results of which became the basis for the approval of rivaroxaban for widespread use in non-valcular atrial fibrillation.
About the Author
I. S. Yavelov
State Scientific and Research Center of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD in medicine, leading research associate of the clinical cardiology and molecular genetics department
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Yavelov IS. STROKE PREVENTION IN NON-VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. WHAT ROCKET AF STUDY RESULTS SAY. Meditsinskiy sovet = Medical Council. 2017;(12):154-160. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21518/2079-701X-2017-12-154-160
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