Objective: To provide recommendations, policies, and procedures pertaining to the provision of optimized anticoagulation therapy designed to achieve desired clinical endpoints while minimizing the ...

Chronic warfarin anticoagulation is commonly used to prevent thromboembolism in patients with atrial fibrillation or venous thromboembolism, and in the management of patients with mechanical heart ...

Three or 6 months of anticoagulant therapy used to be the standard duration of treatment for almost all patients after a first episode of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism (collectively ...

A population-based cohort study found an association between bleeding events in Afib patients on oral anticoagulation and cancer diagnoses. In cases where cancer was diagnosed, it was more likely ...

At what platelet count can I safely initiate long-term anticoagulation with warfarin (Coumadin) in cancer patients with thrombocytopenia and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF)?—EDGAR C. SALIRE, NP-C, ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia that significantly elevates the risk of thromboembolic events, most notably ischaemic stroke. Anticoagulation therapy has long been a ...

The EINSTEIN-PE trial showed that rivaroxaban has equal efficacy and a lower rate of bleeding than coumarins in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism. We anticipate regulatory and consumer ...

Recognizing that D-dimer levels generally increase with advancing age, however, the age-adjusted D-dimer test is ...

Anticoagulants prevent the clotting of blood. They are administered orally or via injection. When a blood vessel is damaged, blood oozes out. However, bleeding stops amazingly within a few minutes ...

Background: Patients taking oral anticoagulant therapy balance the risks of hemorrhage and thromboembolism. We sought to determine the association between anticoagulation intensity and the risk of ...

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