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STRATIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO TROMBOEMBOLICO INDIVIDUALE
Paolo Bocconcelli
Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord
Unitagrave Operativa di Cardiologia
bullLa fibrillazione atriale associata a valvulopatia
mitralica comporta un rischio embolico molto
elevato (incidenza di stroke 17 volte piugrave
frequente rispetto ai controlli (Framingham)
bullLa fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egraversquo
associata a rischio embolico sistemico eo
cerebrale del 45 per anno che sale a circa
lrsquo8 per anno nei pazienti di etagrave gt di 75 anni
FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE VALVOLARE E NON VALVOLARE
ldquoIt is conventional to divide AF into cases which
are described as ldquovalvularrdquo or ldquonon-valvularrdquo
No satisfactory or uniform definition of these
terms exists
In this guideline the term valvular AF is used to
imply that AF is related to rheumatic valvular
disease (predominantly mitral stenosis) or
prosthetic heart valves
European Heart Journal (2012)
Validation of risk stratification schemes for predicting
stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial
fibrillation nationwide cohort study
Schemes for stratifying the risk of stroke have been largely derived from non-anticoagulated arms of clinical trial cohorts in which many potential thromboembolic risk factors were not recorded In these historical trials less than 10 of patients screened were randomised and over the past 15-20 years the evolution of risk schemes has not improved their predictive value for patients at high risk
An ideal validation cohort for a thromboembolic risk scheme would be a large real world cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation without any use of anticoagulation treatment
Jonas Bjerring Olesen et al BMJ 2011342d124
Clin Cardiol 2012 Jan35 Suppl 121-7 doi 101002clc20969
Can we predict stroke in atrial fibrillation Lip GY
Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences University of Birmingham City Hospital BirminghamUnited Kingdom
stroke risk in AF is not homogeneous but despite stroke risk in AF being a continuum prior stroke risk stratification schema have been used to artificially categorise patients into low moderate and high risk stroke strata so that the patients at highest risk can be identified for warfarin therapy
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
bullLa fibrillazione atriale associata a valvulopatia
mitralica comporta un rischio embolico molto
elevato (incidenza di stroke 17 volte piugrave
frequente rispetto ai controlli (Framingham)
bullLa fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egraversquo
associata a rischio embolico sistemico eo
cerebrale del 45 per anno che sale a circa
lrsquo8 per anno nei pazienti di etagrave gt di 75 anni
FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE VALVOLARE E NON VALVOLARE
ldquoIt is conventional to divide AF into cases which
are described as ldquovalvularrdquo or ldquonon-valvularrdquo
No satisfactory or uniform definition of these
terms exists
In this guideline the term valvular AF is used to
imply that AF is related to rheumatic valvular
disease (predominantly mitral stenosis) or
prosthetic heart valves
European Heart Journal (2012)
Validation of risk stratification schemes for predicting
stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial
fibrillation nationwide cohort study
Schemes for stratifying the risk of stroke have been largely derived from non-anticoagulated arms of clinical trial cohorts in which many potential thromboembolic risk factors were not recorded In these historical trials less than 10 of patients screened were randomised and over the past 15-20 years the evolution of risk schemes has not improved their predictive value for patients at high risk
An ideal validation cohort for a thromboembolic risk scheme would be a large real world cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation without any use of anticoagulation treatment
Jonas Bjerring Olesen et al BMJ 2011342d124
Clin Cardiol 2012 Jan35 Suppl 121-7 doi 101002clc20969
Can we predict stroke in atrial fibrillation Lip GY
Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences University of Birmingham City Hospital BirminghamUnited Kingdom
stroke risk in AF is not homogeneous but despite stroke risk in AF being a continuum prior stroke risk stratification schema have been used to artificially categorise patients into low moderate and high risk stroke strata so that the patients at highest risk can be identified for warfarin therapy
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE VALVOLARE E NON VALVOLARE
ldquoIt is conventional to divide AF into cases which
are described as ldquovalvularrdquo or ldquonon-valvularrdquo
No satisfactory or uniform definition of these
terms exists
In this guideline the term valvular AF is used to
imply that AF is related to rheumatic valvular
disease (predominantly mitral stenosis) or
prosthetic heart valves
European Heart Journal (2012)
Validation of risk stratification schemes for predicting
stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial
fibrillation nationwide cohort study
Schemes for stratifying the risk of stroke have been largely derived from non-anticoagulated arms of clinical trial cohorts in which many potential thromboembolic risk factors were not recorded In these historical trials less than 10 of patients screened were randomised and over the past 15-20 years the evolution of risk schemes has not improved their predictive value for patients at high risk
An ideal validation cohort for a thromboembolic risk scheme would be a large real world cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation without any use of anticoagulation treatment
Jonas Bjerring Olesen et al BMJ 2011342d124
Clin Cardiol 2012 Jan35 Suppl 121-7 doi 101002clc20969
Can we predict stroke in atrial fibrillation Lip GY
Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences University of Birmingham City Hospital BirminghamUnited Kingdom
stroke risk in AF is not homogeneous but despite stroke risk in AF being a continuum prior stroke risk stratification schema have been used to artificially categorise patients into low moderate and high risk stroke strata so that the patients at highest risk can be identified for warfarin therapy
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Validation of risk stratification schemes for predicting
stroke and thromboembolism in patients with atrial
fibrillation nationwide cohort study
Schemes for stratifying the risk of stroke have been largely derived from non-anticoagulated arms of clinical trial cohorts in which many potential thromboembolic risk factors were not recorded In these historical trials less than 10 of patients screened were randomised and over the past 15-20 years the evolution of risk schemes has not improved their predictive value for patients at high risk
An ideal validation cohort for a thromboembolic risk scheme would be a large real world cohort of patients with atrial fibrillation without any use of anticoagulation treatment
Jonas Bjerring Olesen et al BMJ 2011342d124
Clin Cardiol 2012 Jan35 Suppl 121-7 doi 101002clc20969
Can we predict stroke in atrial fibrillation Lip GY
Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences University of Birmingham City Hospital BirminghamUnited Kingdom
stroke risk in AF is not homogeneous but despite stroke risk in AF being a continuum prior stroke risk stratification schema have been used to artificially categorise patients into low moderate and high risk stroke strata so that the patients at highest risk can be identified for warfarin therapy
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Clin Cardiol 2012 Jan35 Suppl 121-7 doi 101002clc20969
Can we predict stroke in atrial fibrillation Lip GY
Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences University of Birmingham City Hospital BirminghamUnited Kingdom
stroke risk in AF is not homogeneous but despite stroke risk in AF being a continuum prior stroke risk stratification schema have been used to artificially categorise patients into low moderate and high risk stroke strata so that the patients at highest risk can be identified for warfarin therapy
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
What Are the Risk Factors for Thromboembolism
Whereas it is recognized that AF increases the risk of
stroke and thromboembolism by 5-fold we do
increasingly appreciate that that this risk is not
homogeneous and is altered by the presence of
various stroke risk factors
Also the risk profile changes over time
However multivariate predictors of adverse outcomes
including thromboembolism were arrhythmia
progression (ie from paroxysmal to permanent AF)
development of cardiac diseases and older age (all P
lt005)
Potpara TS Stankovic GR Beleslin BD et al A 12-year followup
study of patients with newly-diagnosed lone atrial fibrillation
implications of arrhythmia progression on prognosis the Belgrade
Atrial Fibrillation Study Chest (in press)
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Two comprehensive systematic reviews from the Stroke in
AF Working Group and the UK National Institute for Health
and Clinical Evidence (NICE) guidelines have summarized
the published evidence for various risk factors on stroke
largely based on nonwarfarin arms of clinical trials and a
few epidemiological cohorts
These risk factors have been used to formulate stroke risk
stratification schemes such as the CHADS2 (Congestive
heart failure Hypertension Age ge75 Diabetes mellitus
and prior Stroke or transient ischemic attack [doubled])
Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Working Group Independent predictors of stroke in
patients with atrial fibrillation a systematic review Neurology 200769546ndash554
Hughes M Lip GY Stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation a systematic
review of stroke risk factors risk stratification schema and cost effectiveness data
Thromb Haemost 200899295ndash304
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
In the Loire Valley AF Project among nonanticoagulated
AF patients with no CHADS2 risk factors (N = 1035) the
impact of age was clearly seen because the
strokethromboembolic event rate per 100 person-
years was 023 (95 CI 008ndash072) 205 (107ndash393)
and 399 (263ndash606) in those aged lt65 65 to 74 and
ge75 years respectively
Olesen JB Fauchier L Lane DA et al Risk factors for stroke and
thromboembolism in relation to age amongst patients with atrial
fibrillation the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project Chest (in
press)
Female gender has also been associated with a higher risk
of stroke in some studies but many of these studies have
included much older female subjects and clearly
young female subjects (eg agelt65 years) with
lone AF would be considered at low risk
Lane DA Lip GY atrial fibrillation patients Thromb Haemost
2010104653] Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and
thromboembolism in
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
To complement the CHADS2 score the new European Society of
Cardiology guidelines have deemphasized the low moderate and high
risk stratification given the poor predictive value of such artificial strata
and more emphasis was put on a risk factorndashbased
approach
The first derivation and validation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score was
performed in an European cohort from the EuroHeart survey on AF to provide
European data for the European guideline
In a nationwide Danish cohort study of 73538 hospitalized on anticoagulated
patients with AF in Denmark reported that in low risklsquolsquo subjects
(CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) the 1-year rate of thromboembolism per 100
person-years was 078 (058ndash104) in contrast to an event rate with the
CHADS2 score of 167 (95 CI 147ndash189) The c-statistics (a statistical
measure of the predictive value of a risk score) with the CHA2DS2-VASc
score clearly outperform the CHADS2 at 1 5 and 10 years of follow-up
Boriani G Botto G Padeletti L et al Improving stroke risk stratification using the CHADS2 and
CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients by continuous arrhythmia
burden monitoring Stroke 2011421768ndash1770
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
CHADS 0
CHADS Vasc 0
CHADS Vasc 1
CHADS Vasc 2
CHADS Vasc 3
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
La valutazione del rischio cardioembolico durata della FA e fattori di
rischio embolico
Per quanto riguarda la durata della FA da studi che utilizzano la registrazione a lungo termine
fornita dai PM impiantati sappiamo che pazienti con periodi di FA superiori alle 24 ore
hanno un rischio embolico triplicato rispetto a pazienti senza FA o con
periodi piugrave brevi e che periodi di FA superiori a 5 minuti raddoppiano il
rischio di morte o ictus in pazienti con malattia del nodo del seno Cappucci ha
studiato 725 pazienti impiantati con PM-DDDR con un follow up di 22 mesi il 2 di questi ha avuto
unrsquoembolia arteriosa Associazioni indipendenti di rischio per lrsquoembolia sono state la cardiopatia ischemica
embolie pregresse diabete ipertensione il rischio di FA egrave di 31 volte se lrsquoaritmia dura piugrave di 24 ore
Un recente studio di Botto utilizzante come metodo di registrazione la memoria del PM (568 pazienti con
malattia del nodo del seno impiantati con un PM-DDDR 25 di eventi tromboembolici a un follow up di
anno) combina la durata degli episodi (sintomatici o asintomatici) di FA con il punteggio di rischio CHADS2
questo studio ha identificato una popolazione a basso rischio tromboembolico (pazienti senza FA e con
punteggio CHADS2 fino a 2 con FA di durata da 5 minuti a 24 ore e CHADS2 0 o 1 o pazienti con FA della
durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS 0 rischio embolico 08 annuo) contrapposta a una popolazione ad
alto rischio embolico (pazienti senza FA e con punteggio CHADS2 da 3 in su con FA di durata da 5 minuti a
24 ore e con CHADS2 da 2 in su con FA della durata di oltre 24 ore e con CHADS2 da 1 in su rischio
embolico 5 annuo)
Gli studi mostrano come il rischio cardioembolico sia direttamente correlato
sia alla durata degli episodi aritmici sia alle patologie concomitanti
Capucci A Santini M Padeletti L et al Monitored atrial fibrillation
duration predicts arterial embolic events in patients suffering
from bradycardia and atrial fibrillation implanted with antitachycardia
pacemakers J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 461913-20
Botto GL Padeletti L Santini M et al Presence and Duration of
Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Continuous Monitoring Crucial
Implications for the Risk of Thromboembolic Events J Cardio -
vasc Electrophysiol 2009 20(3) 241-248
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
ICTUS CRIPTOGENETICO E FIBRILLAZIONE ATRIALE
CORRELAZIONE EVENTO EMBOLICO ndash BURDEN DI FA
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Implications of the CHA2DS2-
VASc and HAS-BLED Scores for
Thromboprophylaxis in Atrial
Fibrillation Gregory Y H Lip MD
The American Journal of Medicine (2010)
xx xxx
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
DA UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
GRUPPI (DISOMOGENEI)
AD UNA CLASSIFICAZIONE DEL RISCHIO PER
IL SINGOLO INDIVIDUO
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Controversies in cardiovascular medicine
Stroke and bleeding risk assessment in atrial
fibrillation when how and why Gregory YH Lip
European Heart Journal (2013) 34 1041ndash1049
Can stroke risk assessment be further refined
1 Assessment of AF burden
2 Echocardiography - transoesphageal echocardiography
3 Blood biomarkers
4 Renal (dys)function
5 Detailed cerebral imaging
However this would be at the cost of reduced simplicity and
practicality limiting its (immediate) quicklsquo use in everyday
clinical practice
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
A further large validation study was performed in a United Kingdom cohort
of 79884 AF patients aged ge18 years in the UK General Practice
Research Database who were followed for an average of 4 years
Again low-risk subjects (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 0) were truly low risk
(with annual stroke events lt05) with the CHA2DS2-VASc score
In an analysis of the Stroke Prevention Using Oral Thrombin Inhibitor in
Atrial Fibrillation (SPORTIF) trial population an anticoagulated AF
cohort (N = 7329 subjects) the CHA2DS2-VASc scheme correctly
identified the greatest proportion of AF patients at high risk and the
negative predictive value (ie the percent categorized as not high
risklsquolsquo actually being free from thromboembolism) for CHA2DS2-VASc
was 995
Notwithstanding the above comments all the published stroke risk
scores (including CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc) are not very useful
in the elderly with only limited ability to predict the risk of stroke
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Conclusions
All the schemes studied had a similar limited ability to predict the risk of
stroke With the exception of the original CHADS2 their performance is
better than chance though further development is required to improve
the accuracy of the tools in older people and it might be better to
pragmatically recommend that clinicians classify all
patients over 75 as high risk and offer oral anticoagulation
for these patients until better tools are available
Performance of stroke risk scores in older people with
atrial fibrillation not taking warfarin comparative cohort
study from BAFTA (Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation in the Aged) trial F D R Hobbs professor and head of department 1 A K Roalfe senior lecturer in medical statistics 2 G Y H Lip
consultant cardiologist3 K Fletcher research fellow2 D A Fitzmaurice professor of primary care 2 J Mant
professor of cardiovascular research 4
BMJ 2011342d3653 doi 101136bmjd3653
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
In sintesi il CHA2DS2-VASc score egrave chiaramente
superiore al CHADS2 nelllsquoidentificare il soggetto
fibrillante con vero basso rischiolsquolsquo embolico
ed egrave almeno altrettanto valido ndash probabilmente
superiore ndash rispetto al CHADS2 score nel definire
il soggetto ad alto rischiolsquolsquo
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Do We Need to Take the Risk of Bleeding into
Account and How Is This Quantified
Risk factors for bleeding on OAC have been identified from
general anticoagulated cohorts but few bleeding risk
assessment tools have been derived and validated in AF
populations
Many risk factors for anticoagulation-related bleeding are
also risk factors for stroke in AF patients
Older bleeding risk tools were also complicated and difficult to
use in everyday clinical practice
Thus many prior guidelines have avoided formal
recommendation of bleeding risk assessment using a specific
bleeding risk score in AF patients
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Conclusions
In patients with AF receiving
anticoagulant therapy the HAS-
BLED score shows significantly
better prediction ability than the
weighted (and slightly more
complex) ATRIA score Our findings
reinforce the incremental usefulness
of the HAS-BLED score over other
bleeding risk scores in patients with
AF
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
In the nationwide Danish cohort the c-statistics for the
HAS-BLED and HEMORR2HAGES (Hepatic or renal failure
Ethanol abuse Malignancy Older [age gt75 years] Reduced
platelet count or function 2 points for Rebleeding risk
Hypertension [uncontrolled] Anemia Genetic factors
Excessive fall risk [including neurodegenerative and
psychiatric disorders] and history of Stroke) schemes were
0795 (0759ndash0829) and 0771 (0733ndash0806) respectively
with comparable results found in AF patients not
receiving OAC
the HAS-BLED score performed similar to
HEMORR2HAGES in predicting bleeding risk
but the HAS-BLED score is much simpler and
easier to use in everyday clinical practice
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Performance of the HEMORR2HAGES ATRIA and HAS-
BLED Bleeding RiskndashPrediction Scores in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Anticoagulation The AMADEUS (Evaluating the Use of SR34006 Compared to Warfarin or Acenocoumarol in Patients With
Atrial Fibrillation) Study Stavros Apostolakis MD PHD Deirdre A Lane PHD Yutao Guo MD Harry Buller MD PHDdagger Gregory Y H Lip MD
Birmingham United Kingdom and Amsterdam the Netherlands
(J Am Coll Cardiol 201260861ndash7)
Conclusions
All 3 tested bleeding riskndashprediction scores demonstrated only modest
performance in predicting any clinically relevant bleeding although the
HAS-BLED score performed better than the
HEMORR2HAGES and ATRIA scores as reflected by ROC
analysis reclassification analysis and decision-curve analysis Only
HAS-BLED demonstrated a significant predictive performance for
intracranial hemorrhage Given its simplicity the HAS-BLED score
may be an attractive method for the estimation of oral
anticoagulantndashrelated bleeding risk for use in clinical practice
supporting recommendations in international guidelines
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
CHA2DS2-VASc criteria Score
Congestive heart failure left ventricular dysfunction
1
Hypertension 1
Age 75 yrs 2
Diabetes mellitus 1
Stroketransient ischaemic attackTE 2
Vascular disease (prior myocardial infarction peripheral artery disease or aortic plaque)
1
Age 65ndash74 yrs 1
Sex category (ie female gender) 1
HAS-BLED risk criteria Score
Hypertension 1
Abnormal renal or liver function (1 point each)
1 or 2
Stroke 1
Bleeding 1
Labile INRs 1
Elderly (eg age gt65 yrs)
1
Drugs or alcohol (1 point each)
1 or 2
Imprevedibilitagrave a priori della rispostabeneficio clinico netto dato che alcuni fattori di rischio per trombo embolismo ed emorragia
sono gli stessi
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
How should we use this bleeding risk
score
In the ESC guidelines a HAS-BLED score of ge3 represents a
sufficiently high risk such that caution andor regular
review of a patient is needed
It also makes the clinician think of correctable common
bleeding risk factors eg improving blood pressure control and
labile INRs would reduce points on the HAS-BLED score
The availability of such a score allows informed decisions
when deciding whether to use a low-dose or high-dose
regime of new OACs such as dabigatran
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
In the net clinical benefit analysismdashbalancing ischaemic
stroke against intracranial bleedingmdashby Olesen et al
those patients with a high HAS-BLED score had an even
greater net clinical benefit with warfarin given that the
higher-risk individuals would have a much greater
absolute reduction in stroke risk with warfarin which
would outweigh the small absolute increase in major
bleeding events
Similar observations were reported in a much larger dataset
by Friberg et al where the adjusted net clinical benefit
favoured anticoagulation for almost all AF patients with
the exception of patients at very low risk of ischaemic
stroke with a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 0 and moderatendash
high bleeding risk Olesen JB Lip GY Lindhardsen J Lane DA Ahlehoff O Hansen ML
Raunsoslash J Tolstrup JS Hansen PR Gislason GH Torp-Pedersen C
Risks of thromboembolism and bleeding with thromboprophylaxis in
patients with atrial fibrillation a net clinical benefit analysis using a lsquoreal
worldrsquo nationwide cohort study Thromb Haemost 2011106739ndash749
Friberg L Rosenqvist M Lip G Net clinical benefit of
warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation A report from the
Swedish Atrial Fibrillation cohort study Circulation
20121252298ndash2307
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Risk of Falls and Major Bleeds in Patients on Oral
Anticoagulation Therapy
Jacques Donzeacute MD MSca Carole Clair MSc MDb Balthasar Hug MD MBA MPHc Nicolas Rodondi
MD MASd Geacuterard Waeber MDe Jacques Cornuz MD MPHb Drahomir Aujesky MD MScd
A high falls risk is
not statistically
significantly
associated with a
risk of major bleeds
(hazard ratio 109
95 confidence
interval 054-221)
suggesting
that being at risk of
falls is not a valid
reason to avoid oral
anticoagulants in
medical patients
The American Journal of Medicine (2012) 125 773-778
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
RISCHIO ANNUALE DI ICTUS O EMBOLISMO SISTEMICO IN BASE AL PUNTEGGIO RAGGIUNTO CON LO SCORE CHA2DS2VASC
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
00
50
100
150
200
Rischio embolico percentuale per anno in base allo score CHA2DS2Vasc
Score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Renal Dysfunction as a Predictor of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Validation of the R2CHADS2 Index in the ROCKET AF (Rivaroxaban Once-daily oral direct factor Xa inhibition Compared with vitamin K
antagonism for prevention of stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation) and ATRIA (AnTicoagulation and Risk factors In Atrial fibrillation) Study Cohorts Piccini JP Stevens SR Chang Y Singer DE Lokhnygina Y Go AS Patel MR Mahaffey KW Halperin JL Breithardt G Hankey GJ Hacke W Becker RC Nessel CC Fox KA Califf RM ROCKET AF Steering Committee and Investigators
CONCLUSIONS
In patients with nonvalvular AF at moderate to high risk of stroke impaired renal function is a potent predictor of stroke and systemic embolism Stroke risk stratification in patients with AF should include renal function
Circulation 2013 Jan 15127(2)224-32
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
CRUSADE Bleeding Score Nomogram
Note Heart rate is truncated lt70 bpm
CrCl Cockcroft-Gault is truncated gt90 mLmin Prior Vascular disease is defined as prior PAD or stroke
Predictor Range Score
Baseline Hematocrit () lt 31 31-339 34-369 37-399
ge 40
9 7 3 2 0
Creatinine Clearance (mLmin) le 15 gt15-30 gt30-60 gt60-90 gt90-120
gt120
39 35 28 17 7 0
Heart rate (bpm) le 70 71-80 81-90
91-100 101-110 111-120
ge 121
0 1 3 6 8
10 11
Sex Male Female
0 8
Signs of CHF at presentation No Yes
0 7
Prior Vascular Disease No Yes
0 6
Diabetes Mellitus No Yes
0 6
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg) le 90 91-100 101-120 121-180 181-200
ge 201
10 8 5 1 3 5
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Lancet 2012 379 648ndash61
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
The CHADS(2) and CHA (2)DS (2)-VASc scores predict
new occurrence of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke Ming-Liang Zuo Shasha Liu Koon-Ho Chan Kui-Kai Lau Boon-Hor Chong Kwok-Fai Lam Yap-Hang Chan Yuk-Fai
Lau Gregory Y H Lip Chu-Pak Lau Hung-Fat Tse Chung-Wah Siu
J Interv Card Electrophysiol (2013) PMID 23389054
CONCLUSION The CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores can be used in
patients who presented with arrhythmic symptoms to identify those who are at
risk with developing new-onset clinical AF and ischemic stroke for close
clinical surveillance and early intervention
CHADS2 CHA2DS2-VASc and long-term stroke
outcome in patients without atrial fibrillation George Ntaios Gregory Y H Lip Konstantinos Makaritsis Vasileios Papavasileiou Anastasia Vemmou Eleni
Koroboki Paraskevi Savvari Efstathios Manios Haralampos MilionisKonstantinos Vemmos
Neurology (2013) PMID 23408865
CONCLUSIONS Prestroke CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores predict
long-term stroke outcomes in non-AF patients with acute ischemic stroke These
scores may provide a simple way of stroke prognostic risk stratification
among non-AF stroke patients
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc Scores for Prediction
of Immediate and Late Stroke after Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft Surgery Fausto Biancari Muhammad Ali Asim Mahar and Olli-Pekka Kangasniemi
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2012) PMID 23253529
CONCLUSIONS A significant number of patients may suffer stroke late after
CABG and patients with a high risk of stroke can be identified by
CHADS(2) and CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc scores independently from the presence
of pre- or postoperative atrial fibrillation
CHADS(2) Score Statin Therapy and Risks of Atrial
Fibrillation Chen-Ying Hung Ching-Heng Lin El-Wui Loh Chih-Tai Ting Tsu-Juey Wu
Am J Med 126(2)133-140e1 (2013) PMID 23331441
CONCLUSION Statin therapy in elderly patients with hypertension reduces
the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation Statins are more beneficial in
patients with CHADS(2) score ge2 than in those with score of 1
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
Prognosis and Guideline-Adherent Antithrombotic Treatment in
Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Implications of Undertreatment and Overtreatment in Real-life Clinical Practice
the Loire Valley Atrial Fibrillation Project
CHEST 2011 140(4)911ndash917
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
How should we approach stroke risk
assessment in AF
By being more inclusive rather than
exclusive of common stroke risk factors in AF we
can clearly do much better in reducing stroke and
mortality in AF which are the 2 main endpoints that
are significantly reduced by oral anticoagulation
compared to placebocontrol
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
TAKE HOME MESSAGEShellip
1 La stratificazione del rischio tromboembolico dei pazienti con
fibrillazione atriale non valvolare egrave essenziale per selezionare il
migliore trattamento antitrombotico
2 Lo schema di stratificzione del rischio piulsquo utilizzato egrave il
CHA2DS2-Vasc che egrave stato sviluppato dal precedente CHADS2
considerando altri elementi aggiuntivi in grado di modificare il
rischio
3 Il CHA2DS2-Vasc definisce con maggiore precisione il soggetto a
rischio veramente basso e a rischio intermedio e definisce
altrettanto bene il rischio elevato Il soggetto a punteggio ―0
non richiede alcun trattamento
4 Il sistema a punteggio consente di passare da categorie di
rischio stratificato in basso medio e alto alla individualizzazione
del rischio per singolo paziente con un equivalente di
probabilitagrave di eventi per anno
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
6 Llsquoaccuratezza nella definizione del rischio embolico nelllsquoanziano
non egrave tuttora adeguata (elevato in questa popolazione egrave anche il
rischio emorragico) tuttavia in genere la correzione del rischio
embolico appare vantaggiosa rispetto al rischio emorragico
indotto dalla terapia anticoagulante orale
7 ll sesso femminile rappresenta un fattore di rischio embolico
quando isolato solo al di sopra di 65 anni di etagrave
8 Un elevato rischio di cadute non egrave statisticamente associato
ad un rischio di sanguinamenti maggiori e non rappresenta
una valida ragione per evitare il trattamento anticoagulante
orale
9 Un fattore di rischio embolico aggiuntivo egrave rappresentato dalla
insufficienza renale che tuttavia egrave un elemento che incrementa
anche il rischio emorragico proporzionalmente al suo grado
(vedere come esempio il Crusade bleeding score risk)
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione
―e piu interessante sapere quale tipo di paziente e colpito da una determinata
malattia che non quale malattia affligge il paziente
WILLIAM OSLER 1849-1919
Grazie per lrsquoattenzione