Emergency correction of coagulation before major surgery in two elderly patients on oral anticoagulation

Thrombosis Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Angelo, Marzia ^a   Gutmann, Bernhard ^a   Adami, Michele ^a   Zagler, Bernd ^a   Zelger, Anton ^a   Pechlaner, Christoph ^b   Wiedermann, Christian J ^a  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COUMARIN; D DIMER; HEMOGLOBIN; PHYTOMENADIONE; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; UMAN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846879191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14779560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-9560-5-1     Document Type: Article

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