Anticoagulation in pregnancy with mechanical heart valves: 10-year experience

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 497-501

  Akhtar, Raja P ^a   Abid, Abdul R ^a   Zafar, Hasnain ^a   Cheema, Masud A ^a   Khan, Jawad S ^a  

^a PUNJAB INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBRYOPATHY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVE BIRTH; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 38349150345     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500610     Document Type: Article

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