Atrial Fibrillation and Renal Function: How High Is the Price of Anticoagulation?

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Electronic address: asing001@umn.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Richard W Asinger et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

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. 2015 Jun 16;65(23):2494-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.043.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Electronic address: asing001@umn.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Keywords: anticoagulation; atrial fibrillation; dabigatran; warfarin; warfarin nephropathy.

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