For patients on long-term oral anticoagulation therapy, use of point-of-care devices is associated with lower rates of death and major thromboembolic events compared with laboratory determinations of ...
Monitoring unfractionated heparin (UFH) using the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) or the anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) chromogenic assay still seems to be a controversy. Is the anti-Xa less ...
Background: Unfractionated heparin (UFH) has been used clinically for 5 decades. Despite being a cornerstone of anticoagulation, UFH is limited by its unpredictable pharmacokinetic profile, which ...
Despite the development of new anticoagulants, unfractionated heparin (UFH) continues to be a primary choice for intravenous anticoagulant therapy because of its titratability, short half-life, ...
Devices are available that enable patients who take warfarin to measure their INR values at home. Patients with such devices can adjust their warfarin doses as needed after phone consultations with ...