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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-20
pubmed:abstractText
The management of patients who require temporary interruption of vitamin K antagonists is a common clinical problem, affecting an estimated 400 000 patients per year in Europe and North America. Managing such patients is challenging because of the lack of randomized trials assessing different perioperative anticoagulation management strategies and inconsistent recommendations from consensus groups. Recent non-randomized trials have helped to estimate the risks for arterial thromboembolism and bleeding with bridging anticoagulation involving low-molecular-weight heparin. The objectives of this review are to describe bridging anticoagulation and how it may be used with a short-acting heparin, such as unfractionated heparin or low-molecular-weight heparin, to discuss preoperative patient management, focusing on risk stratification for thromboembolic events and interruption of vitamin K antagonist therapy, and to discuss postoperative patient management, focusing on surgery-related bleeding risk and the resumption of bridging anticoagulation and vitamin K antagonist therapy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1828-0447
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
96-104
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-2-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Anticoagulants, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Atrial Fibrillation, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Clinical Trials as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Hemorrhage, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Heparin, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Infusions, Intravenous, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Intraoperative Care, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Postoperative Care, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Practice Guidelines as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Preoperative Care, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Risk Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Surgical Procedures, Operative, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Thromboembolism, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17111781-Vitamin K
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
The management of patients who require temporary reversal of vitamin K antagonists for surgery: a practical guide for clinicians.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, McMaster University and St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Review