The dilemma of discontinuation of anticoagulation therapy for patients with intracranial hemorrhage and mechanical heart valves

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 769-773

  Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^a   Schievink, Wouter I ^a   Brown, Robert D ^a   Mullany, Charles J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Heart valves; Intracranial hemorrhage; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEPARIN; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031958830     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199804000-00053     Document Type: Article

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