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Anticoagulation in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Navigating Uncertainty.

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Key takeaways

Advanced kidney disease raises the risk of dangerous blood clots and dangerous bleeding at the same time, which makes blood thinners a hard call. This review covers people with advanced kidney disease who also have an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) and so face a high stroke risk. These patients were left out of the major trials, so whether the protection outweighs the bleeding risk is still unknown. The article lays out that uncertainty and reports no new results.

Who did this work

Velioğlu A

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression and prevention · 2026 Sep 1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42677978/