%0 Journal Article %T Recent Advances in Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and End-Stage Renal Disease %A Federico Ronco %A Leila Hosseinian %A Patrizio Mazzone %A Simonetta Genovesi %J Archive of "Cardiorenal Medicine". %D 2017 %R 10.1159/000470856 %X Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with a high prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF), but in this population the risk/benefit ratio of anticoagulant therapy with vitamin K antagonists (VKA) for thromboprophylaxis is uncertain %K Atrial fibrillation %K Stroke %K Chronic kidney disease %K End-stage renal disease %K New oral anticoagulants %K Left atrial appendage occlusion %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5511995/