Is long-term anticoagulation after acute thromboembolic limb ischemia always necessary?

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 337-340

  Forbes, Thomas L ^a   DeRose, Guy ^a   Harris, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 0036814521     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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