Novel oral anticoagulants for the secondary prevention of cerebral ischemia: a network meta-analysis

Background: Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) have shown to be both safe and effective for ischemic stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). We conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) using published data from secondary prevention subgroups of different phase III ra...

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Main Authors: Aristeidis H. Katsanos, Dimitris Mavridis, John Parissis, Spyridon Deftereos, Alexandra Frogoudaki, Agathi-Rosa Vrettou, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Maria Chondrogianni, Apostolos Safouris, Angeliki Filippatou, Konstantinos Voumvourakis, Nikos Triantafyllou, John Ellul, Theodore Karapanayiotides, Sotirios Giannopoulos, Anne W. Alexandrov, Andrei V. Alexandrov, Georgios Tsivgoulis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-09-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756285616659411