“The key here is that blood thinners are good therapies to remove blood clots and it is one of the main therapies in stroke. The study did not use a control group because of logistical and ethical issues. The 2016 results had pegged it at 15 percent. The death rate at 30 days was 14 percent. The new results, reported February 7 at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Honolulu and online by the New England Journal of Medicine, cover a broader study population of 352 and show a success rate of 82 percent after 12 hours. Preliminary results from 67 patients, released in 2016, found that 79 percent of patients had good or excellent control over bleeding, nearly always in the brain or the gut. NOAC Bleeding No More Dangerous than Warfarin Bleeding.FDA Approves Praxbind as Reversal Agent for Pradaxa.Factor Xa Inhibitor Reversal Agent Is Not Ready for Prime Time.
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