Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in the Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (ACTION-CVT): A Multicenter International Study.

Yaghi, Shadi; Shu, Liqi; Bakradze, Ekaterina; Salehi Omran, Setareh; Giles, James A; Amar, Jordan Y; Henninger, Nils; Elnazeir, Marwa; Liberman, Ava L; Moncrieffe, Khadean; Lu, Jenny; Sharma, Richa; Cheng, Yee; Zubair, Adeel S; Simpkins, Alexis N; Li, Grace T; Kung, Justin Chi; Perez, Dezaray; Heldner, Mirjam; Scutelnic, Adrian; ... (2022). Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in the Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (ACTION-CVT): A Multicenter International Study. Stroke, 53(3), pp. 728-738. American Heart Association 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037541

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BACKGROUND

A small randomized controlled trial suggested that dabigatran may be as effective as warfarin in the treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). We aimed to compare direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to warfarin in a real-world CVT cohort.

METHODS

This multicenter international retrospective study (United States, Europe, New Zealand) included consecutive patients with CVT treated with oral anticoagulation from January 2015 to December 2020. We abstracted demographics and CVT risk factors, hypercoagulable labs, baseline imaging data, and clinical and radiological outcomes from medical records. We used adjusted inverse probability of treatment weighted Cox-regression models to compare recurrent cerebral or systemic venous thrombosis, death, and major hemorrhage in patients treated with warfarin versus DOACs. We performed adjusted inverse probability of treatment weighted logistic regression to compare recanalization rates on follow-up imaging across the 2 treatments groups.

RESULTS

Among 1025 CVT patients across 27 centers, 845 patients met our inclusion criteria. Mean age was 44.8 years, 64.7% were women; 33.0% received DOAC only, 51.8% received warfarin only, and 15.1% received both treatments at different times. During a median follow-up of 345 (interquartile range, 140-720) days, there were 5.68 recurrent venous thrombosis, 3.77 major hemorrhages, and 1.84 deaths per 100 patient-years. Among 525 patients who met recanalization analysis inclusion criteria, 36.6% had complete, 48.2% had partial, and 15.2% had no recanalization. When compared with warfarin, DOAC treatment was associated with similar risk of recurrent venous thrombosis (aHR, 0.94 [95% CI, 0.51-1.73]; P=0.84), death (aHR, 0.78 [95% CI, 0.22-2.76]; P=0.70), and rate of partial/complete recanalization (aOR, 0.92 [95% CI, 0.48-1.73]; P=0.79), but a lower risk of major hemorrhage (aHR, 0.35 [95% CI, 0.15-0.82]; P=0.02).

CONCLUSIONS

In patients with CVT, treatment with DOACs was associated with similar clinical and radiographic outcomes and favorable safety profile when compared with warfarin treatment. Our findings need confirmation by large prospective or randomized studies.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology

UniBE Contributor:

Heldner, Mirjam Rachel, Scutelnic, Adrian, Seiffge, David Julian, Siepen, Bernhard Matthias

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services

ISSN:

1524-4628

Publisher:

American Heart Association

Language:

English

Submitter:

Chantal Kottler

Date Deposited:

02 Nov 2022 08:26

Last Modified:

13 Jan 2023 11:36

Publisher DOI:

10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037541

PubMed ID:

35143325

Uncontrolled Keywords:

anticoagulants contraindications dabigatran hemorrhage venous thrombosis

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174406

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174406

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