New Oral Anticoagulants versus Warfarin for Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Multi-Center, Observational Study

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
² Department of Neurology, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
³ Department of Neurology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Neurology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Shifa International University and Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Department of Neurology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Mohammad Wasay et al. J Stroke. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;21(2):220-223.

doi: 10.5853/jos.2019.00150. Epub 2019 May 31.

¹ Department of Neurology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
² Department of Neurology, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
³ Department of Neurology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Neurology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Shifa International University and Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Department of Neurology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

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