Open AccessCognitive Dysfunction at the Background of Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical-Pathological Aspects, Diagnostics and Prevention, Issues of the Use of the Application of Anticoagulant Therapy
Author(s) -
Ж. Д. Кобалава,
П. В. Лазарев,
D. N. Fedorova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
kardiologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2412-5660
pISSN - 0022-9040
DOI - 10.18087/cardio.2019.10.n612
Subject(s) - atrial fibrillation , cognition , pathological , medicine , anticoagulant therapy , epidemiology , independence (probability theory) , intensive care medicine , clinical practice , cardiology , psychiatry , physical therapy , statistics , mathematics
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and cognitive dysfunction - common states with similar risk factors. Recently significant scientific epidemiological data has been received in favor of independence of effect of AF on possibility of development of cognitive dysfunction. In this review we present problems of prevalence, pathogenesis, and diagnostics of various variants of cognitive disorders at the background of AF, as well as methods of their prevention and tactics of anticoagulant therapy in the presence of cognitive disturbances.