what are the Recommendations for Selecting an Anticoagulant Regimen—
Balancing Risks and Benefits?
For patients with AF (except with moderate- to-severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical heart valve) and a CHADS-VASc score of 1 2 2 in men and 2 in women, prescribing an oral anticoagulant to reduce thromboembolic stroke risk may be considered.S4.1.1-31?S4.1.1-35 MODIFIED: Exclusion criteria are now defined as moderate-to-severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical heart valve, and evidence was added to support separate risk scores by sex. LOE was updated from C to C-LD. (Section 4.1. in the 2014 AF Guideline)