Low-dose warfarin in rehabilitating stroke survivors

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 287-290

  Ginsberg, Jeffrey S ^a   Bates, Shannon M ^a   Oczkowski, Wieslaw ^a   Booker, Nicola ^a   Magier, Deb ^a   MacKinnon, Betsy ^b   Weitz, Jeffrey ^a   Kearon, Clive ^a   Cruickshank, Moira ^b   Julian, Jim A ^b   Gent, Michael ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Stroke; Venous thromboembolism; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG VEIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 0037107265     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0049-3848(02)00343-2     Document Type: Article

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