Warfarin in patients with stroke and reasons for discontinuation.

Background: Reasons for warfarin prescription in patients who have had ischemic stroke, and its discontinuation, are complex and unique for each individual patient.

Objective: We sought to discover the reasons for discontinuation of warfarin therapy in patients followed up in a medical center antithrombosis clinic after stroke occurrence.

Materials: In all, 229 patients on warfarin therapy with history of stroke were followed up in our antithrombosis clinic between January 1997 and March 2003.