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Should you stop anti-clotting drugs before a procedure?

Harvard Heart Letter, 2017, Vol.28 (3), p.3-3

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  • Title:
    Should you stop anti-clotting drugs before a procedure?
  • Subjects: Anticoagulants ; Anticoagulants (Medicine) ; Anticoagulants - administration & dosage ; Biopsy ; Blood clots ; Blood Coagulation ; Colonoscopy ; Complications and side effects ; Consumer health ; Dosage and administration ; Humans ; Preoperative Care ; Prescription drugs ; Surgical Procedures, Operative
  • Is Part Of: Harvard Heart Letter, 2017, Vol.28 (3), p.3-3
  • Description: Millions of people with cardiovascular disease take drugs that help prevent blood clots, which can lodge in a vessel and choke off part of the blood supply to a leg, a lung, or the brain. [...]if you’re taking one of these drugs and need an invasive procedure - anything from a tooth extraction to a hip replacement - managing the risks can be tricky, says cardiologist Dr. Gregory Piazza, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. A key conversation In addition to the procedure itself, other factors that affect anticoagulant decisions include your age, any other health problems or medications you take, and whether you’re taking warfarin (which stays in the body for days) or a NOAC (which may lose some of its effect after about 12 hours). Because of all these variables, the best strategy is to make sure that the doctor slated to perform your procedure talks directly with the doctor who prescribed your anticoagulant, says Dr. Piazza.
  • Publisher: United States: Harvard Health Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1051-5313
    EISSN: 1943-510X
    PMID: 29480672
  • Source: MEDLINE
    ProQuest Central
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