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Cardiac Embolic Stroke: Anticoagulating the Elderly

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Stroke remains the third commonest cause of death in the United States. Cerebral infarcts from cardiac emboli represent a progressively increasing percentage of strokes. as non-traumatic cerebral hemorrhages secondary to hypertension continue to decline. In no age group is this increase in cerebral infarction from cardiac emboli more apparent than in the elderly. 75 per cent of individuals over age 85 are not in nursing homes;1 yet an increasing number of these individuals remain at risk of premature death or disability from an embolic stroke.

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    Stanford Wessler

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  2. Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, USA

    Carl G. Becker

  3. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, New York, New York, USA

    Yale Nemerson

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Wessler, S. (1987). Cardiac Embolic Stroke: Anticoagulating the Elderly. In: Wessler, S., Becker, C.G., Nemerson, Y. (eds) The New Dimensions of Warfarin Prophylaxis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5985-3_29

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