THROMBOEMBOLISM accounts for much of the morbidity and mortality that follow major trauma. Patients with fractures of the hip are especially prone to the development of venous thromboses, perhaps ...

In this issue of Journal of Oncology Practice, the review by Sorigue and Miljkovic 1 on thromboembolic risk in patients with cancer with atrial fibrillation (AF) and the available anticoagulation ...

Search of the Mayo Clinic electronic medical record yielded 400 patients seen in the ED between 2002 and 2005 who met the aforementioned criteria for acute PE ( Table 1 and Table 2). Median age was 68 ...

Early retrospective reports suggested alarmingly high incidences of pulmonary embolism among patients who were hospitalized for Covid-19. However, those studies preferentially included patients who ...

Anticoagulants are one of the most commonly prescribed medication classes, and the utilization of these agents is on the rise. Anticoagulants are prescribed for many indications, including prevention ...

Blood thinners (anticoagulants) cause bleeding without preventing stroke in patients with atrial high rate episodes (AHRE), but without electrocardiogram (ECG)-diagnosed atrial fibrillation, according ...

BOSTON -- In deciding on anticoagulation with apixaban (Eliquis) for patients with device-detected, subclinical atrial fibrillation (SCAF), one key number appeared to distinguish those for whom the ...

Sean B. Smith, MD; Jeffrey B. Geske, MD; Jennifer M. Maguire, MD; Nicholas A. Zane, BA; Rickey E. Carter, PhD; Timothy I. Morgenthaler, MD, FCCP We identified several ...