Icon Array decision-aids for two model patients showing the risks of stroke or systemic embolism and major bleeding with warfarin (top) and dabigatran 150mg (bottom).
posted on 2021-08-19, 17:47authored bySamuel W. Reinhardt, Nihar R. Desai, Yuanyuan Tang, Philip G. Jones, Jeremy Ader, John A. Spertus
Panel A shows the risks for Patient A, a 68-year-old, 50-kg woman from the United States who has a history of heart failure, has a creatinine clearance of 49 ml/min, has paroxysmal AF, is not taking aspirin, and has no history of diabetes, stroke, systemic embolism, TIA. Panel B shows the risks for Patient B, a 62-year-old, 85-kg man, from the United States, with diabetes, a creatinine clearance of 85 ml/min, has a history of TIA, has permanent AF, is taking aspirin, and has no history of heart failure.