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Warfarin linked to greater incidence of brain injury following strokeRSS Feed
Patients using the drug warfarin are more likely to suffer brain injury following stroke treatment, new research has shown.
The clot-dissolving medicine has been linked with a greater incidence of brain haemorrhage following an acute stroke by researchers from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.
Authors, led by the center's Shyam Prabhakaran, wrote: "The overall rate of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage was 6.5 per cent, but it was nearly ten-fold higher among patients taking warfarin compared with those not taking warfarin at baseline (30.8 percent vs. 3.2 percent, respectively)."
The findings, which are published in the Archives of Neurology journal, follow research by scientists at the University of Bristol, which revealed that infants suffering a brain haemorrhage may be at risk of brain injury.
This is due to the toxicity of the fluid inside ventricals at the centre of the brain, although researchers are confident they have found a new way to reduce the risk of injury with a groundbreaking new treatment.
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