Should patients who have had hemorrhagic strokes be restarted on oral anticoagulation?
If so, how do you decide when to restart anticoagulants?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Whether a patient with atrial fibrillation and an intracerebral hemorrhage should resume anticoagulation depends on whether the bleed was attributed to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Most patients with CAA should not be on long-term (lifelong) anticoagulation. If a bleed was attributed to hypert...