The management of patients with venous thromboembolism in Italy: insights from the PREFER in VTE registry

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1095-1102

  Guercini, Francesco ^a   Mommi, Valeria ^a   Camporese, Giuseppe ^b   Tonello, Chiara ^c   Imberti, Davide ^c   Benedetti, Raffaella ^c   De Bartolomeo, Giuseppe ^d   Di Lecce, Livio ^e   Romeo, Fabio ^e   Agnelli, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Department of Pathology   (Italy)

^d Hospital F Veneziale Isernia   (Italy)

^e DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism; New oral anticoagulants; Venous thromboembolism; Vitamin K antagonist

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

AGED; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTER; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTRIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84979300212     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-016-1507-6     Document Type: Article

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