This Study Uses the SITS Registry to Find Out When Patients With a Heart Rhythm Disorder (Atrial Fibrillation) Start Treatment With Dabigatran After They Had a Stroke
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This is an observational study in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) presenting to the hospital with a first acute ischemic stroke based on existing data recorded in the SITS International Registry (located in Sweden) by physicians in several European countries, such as Italy, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Spain, Finland, Portugal, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Norway Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Lithuania, France, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Ukraine and Iceland.
The aim of this study is to explore the current real world use of dabigatran for stroke prevention in NVAF patients in the post-stroke setting. Secondary data from eligible European patients registered in the SITS registry will be considered; countries of origin are not known a priori.
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- Patients with non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation (NVAF)
- Patients presenting with their first acute ischemic stroke
- ≥18 years of age
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- Documentation that the patient was enrolled or is planned to be enrolled in an investigational clinical trial at the time of the onset of the index event and for the duration of the data collection
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1,489 participants in 1 patient group
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