Risk Profiles and Treatment Patterns in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Receiving or not Receiving Anticoagulation Therapy

Reinhold Kreutz; Gilbert Deray; Jürgen Floege; Marianne Gwechenberger; Kai Hahn; Andreas R. Luft; Pontus Persson; Christoph Axthelm; Juerg Hans Beer; Jutta Bergler-Klein; Nicolas Lellouche; Jens Taggeselle; Jan Beyer-Westendorf

doi:10.1055/s-0044-1780529

TH Open (Jan 2024)

Risk Profiles and Treatment Patterns in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Receiving or not Receiving Anticoagulation Therapy

Reinhold Kreutz,
Gilbert Deray,
Jürgen Floege,
Marianne Gwechenberger,
Kai Hahn,
Andreas R. Luft,
Pontus Persson,
Christoph Axthelm,
Juerg Hans Beer,
Jutta Bergler-Klein,
Nicolas Lellouche,
Jens Taggeselle,
Jan Beyer-Westendorf

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Reinhold Kreutz: ORCiD; Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gilbert Deray: Department of Nephrology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris 6 University, Paris, France
Jürgen Floege: Division of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
Marianne Gwechenberger: Division of Cardiology, University Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Kai Hahn: Nephrologische Praxis, Dortmund, Germany
Andreas R. Luft: Center for Neurology and Rehabilitation, Klinik für Neurologie, Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland and Cereneo, Vitznau, Switzerland
Pontus Persson: Institut für Vegetative Physiologie, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Christoph Axthelm: Cardiologicum Pirna and Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Juerg Hans Beer: Department Innere Medizin, Baden Switzerland and Center of Molecular Cardiology, Kantonsspital Baden, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Jutta Bergler-Klein: Division of Cardiology, University Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Nicolas Lellouche: Service de Cardiologie 1, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
Jens Taggeselle: Praxis Dr. med. Jens Taggeselle, Markkleeberg, Germany
Jan Beyer-Westendorf: Thrombosis Research Unit, Division Haematology, Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1780529
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 08, no. 01
pp. e106 – e113

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Background Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk for both thromboembolism and bleeding events. The latter induces a potential reason for withholding oral anticoagulation (OAC) despite an indication for prophylaxis of thromboembolic events.

Published in TH Open

ISSN: 2512-9465 (Online)
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag KG
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-00033990

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