whether more patients with heart failure should get warfarin

May 1998

There's a controversy over whether more patients with heartfailure should get warfarin.

Warfarin ISN'T routinely recommended for these patients,unless they have another reason to be on it...such as atrialfibrillation or a previous MI.

But now there's evidence that warfarin improves survival inpatients with left ventricular dysfunction.

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