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In addition, patients receiving aspirin alone were more than 12 times as likely to have stroke progression compared with patients taking other types of therapies.
Eleven percent of patients experiencing bleeding into the brain tissue. Only three, however, were symptomatic, and all of these had been taking full-dose enoxaparin. Two patients taking heparin had systemic bleeding.
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Adding enoxaparin or heparin to warfarin increased the risks of bleeding but could be considered in certain circumstances, the authors stated.
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Visit the American Heart Association for more on different kinds of stroke.
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