Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, Hospital General Docente “Abel Santamaría Cuadrado”. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, Hospital General Docente “Abel Santamaría Cuadrado”. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna”. Pinar del Río, Cuba
Introduction: Atrial fibrillation is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia in daily clinical practice and is associated with a marked increase in the risk of thromboembolic accidents.
Objective: to characterize the thromboembolic and hemorrhagic risk in patients with permanent nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
Methods: an observational, descriptive and transversal research was carried out at the General Teaching Hospital "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" of Pinar del Río during the period between July 2019 and July 2021. We worked with the whole universe and it was constituted by 92 patients.
Results: the incidence of atrial fibrillation increased as age increased, the male sex represented 64,2% of the sample. High thromboembolic risk was found in 60,86 % of the patients. Regarding risk factors, 68,4 % were older than 65 years, 61 % of the patients presented high risk of bleeding (53,26 %), there was a predominance of oral anticoagulants in patients with high risk of bleeding as well as in those at low risk, with 28,26 % and 31,52 % respectively.
Conclusions: Patients had a high level of thromboembolic risk and received anticoagulant treatment. The most frequent risk factors for bleeding were age, drugs and alcohol. Most patients had an elevated bleeding risk.
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