Anticoagulation during pregnancy in patients with a prosthetic heart valve

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 415-424

  Castellano, Jose M ^a   Narayan, Rajeev L ^a   Vaishnava, Prashant ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ARGATROBAN; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; DABIGATRAN; DANAPAROID; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LEPIRUDIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBRYOPATHY; FETAL HEMORRHAGE; FETUS DEATH; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TERATOGENICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862858401     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.69     Document Type: Review

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