| Title | Anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents and the risk of development and recurrence of chronic subdural haematomas. | | Author(s) | Lindvall P, Koskinen LO | | Institution | Department of Neurosurgery, Umea University Hospital, Umeå 901 85, Sweden. | | Source | J Clin Neurosci 2009 Jun 27. | | Abstract | Seventy-one patients from northern Sweden were diagnosed with chronic subdural haematomas (CSDH) and treated at the Department of Neurosurgery at Umeå University Hospital over 12months. Fifty-four patients with CSDH had a history of head trauma (trauma group), while 17 patients had no previous head trauma (non-trauma group). In the non-trauma group 71% of patients were treated with anticoagulants or antiplatelet aggregation agents (AAA) compared to 18% in the trauma group. Considering only AAA, 59% of the non-trauma patients were treated with these drugs versus 17% of patients in the trauma group. The recurrence rate for all patients was 17%. These findings confirm that the use of anticoagulants and AAA is over-represented in patients with non-traumatic CSDH. In our study, recurrence was not associated with previous use of anticoagulants or AAA. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 19564115 |
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