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Before addressing the question of the place of anticoagulant therapy in the treatment of strokes we must first ask what it is that we are endeavouring to treat. Stroke is a clinical syndrome with various pathological causes. Clearly, treating strokes due to cerebral haemorrhage with anticoagulants would be highly inappropriate. Happily this dilemma no longer faces us as it did in the early days of anticoagulant therapy. CT scanning, which is mandatory before embarking on the treatment of stroke, clearly distinguishes between haemorrhage and infarction.
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Marshall, J. (1987). Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Stroke. In: Poeck, K., Ringelstein, E.B., Hacke, W. (eds) New Trends in Diagnosis and Management of Stroke. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72996-6_7
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