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on May 21, 2009

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2009

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Submitted on September 21, 2008
Accepted on October 1, 2008

Anticoagulants for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Peter Sandercock DM, FRCPE^*; Carl Counsell MRCP, MSc, MD; and Ayeesha K. Kamal MBBS, AKU

From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (P.S.), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; the Division of Applied Health Sciences (C.C.), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; and the Department of Neurology (A.K.K.), The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Peter.sandercock{at}ed.ac.uk.

Key words: anticoagulants • ischemic stroke • systematic review