Prophylaxis against prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis with unfractionated heparin administered by an elastometric infusion pump

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sandset, Per Morten ^a,b   Arnesen, Harald ^a,b   Jacobsen, Anne Flem ^a   Wergeland, Håkon ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Clinical review; Heart valve prosthesis; Low molecular weight heparin; Pregnancy; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; CARBAMAZEPINE; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

BLOOD LEVEL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTOMETRIC INFUSION PUMP; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FLOW RATE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SEIZURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DRUG MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MITRAL VALVE; POLYMERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RECURRENCE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956265461     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2010.05.005     Document Type: Letter

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