Explain why heparin is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombotic strokes but contraindicated in a subarachnoid hemorrhage

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The most common cause of a stroke is a blockage of a cerebral artery by a clot. Heparin would keep more clots from forming. It would be contraindicated in a subarachnoid hemorrhage because it would likely worsen the bleeding from ruptured vessels.

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