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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2009 May 28;40(8):2869–2871. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.550699

Table 3.

Treatments and outcomes.

Prophylactic Group Treatment Group Total
Total patient-months of anticoagulant therapy 728 601 1,329
Clinically relevant bleeding episodes
 Major 0% (0/21) 0% (0/16) 0% (0/37)
 Non-major 9% (2/21) 0% (0/16) 5% (2/37)
Cumulative probability of recurrent AIS at 1 y (95% confidence interval) 15% (5–40%) 13% (3–41%) 14% (6–30)
Cumulative probability of recurrent AIS/TIA at 1 y (95% confidence interval) 25% (15–55%) 20% (7–50%) 23% (14–44%)

Abbreviations: AIS, arterial ischemic stroke; TIA, transient ischemic attack