Issue: 2015, Vol. 20, No. 3
THE EFFICACY OF ANTICOAGULANT PREPARATION OF PATIENTS WITH ATRIUM FIBRILLATION TO SINUS RHYTHM RESTORATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
- Keywords
- atrial fibrillation, peresophageal echocardiography, left atrial auricle thrombosis, warfarin, new oral anticoagulants
- Abstarct
- 246 patients with atrium fibrillation which were prepared to sinus rhythm restoration were examined by peresophageal echocardiography; the atrial auricle thrombus was revealed in 37 patients (15%). Adequate antico- agulant therapy was conducted in 184 patients (74,8%); on this therapy background the thrombosis was detected in 9,2% cases. The treatment was proved to be adequate in 66% cases in warfarin administration and in 93,4% cases - in new oral anticoagulants administration (p< 0,001). On the background of adequate therapy atrial throm- bosis was revealed in 11,5% patients which got warfarin and in 5,6% patients which got new oral anticoagulants (p<0,05). “Living” median of the thrombus which was detected in the first examination was amounting to 2 months in the therapy by warfarin and to 1 month in the therapy by new oral anticoagulants (p<0,05).