It was recommended to the patient that she start prophylactic-dose LMWH at the beginning of her second trimester through 6 weeks postpartum, with short interruption around the time of delivery. She did so, and had an uneventful spontaneous normal delivery. There was also discussion about the nee...
Current practice is to administer daily LMWH from admission. This is omitted pre-operatively if the patient is going to surgery within 12 h of admission to reduce intraoperative The trauma meeting In recent years, this has become a daily multidisciplinary meeting with orthopaedic surgeons, ...
The presumed anti-inflammatory properties of LMWH make this anticoagulant an option for further study; however, other candidate drugs are emerging. A randomized study of 234 patients with acute DVT reported that addition of a statin (rosuvastatin) to LMWH monotherapy was associated with a ...
EPO, erythropoietin; LMWH, low-molecular-weight heparin; PEX, plasma exchange. On the other hand, excessive and prolonged steroid therapy (>15 months) may result in significant side effects, particularly osteoporosis, even at doses considered low by hematologists (prednisolone, ∼7.5 mg per day...
The presumed anti-inflammatory properties of LMWH make this anticoagulant an option for further study; however, other candidate drugs are emerging. A randomized study of 234 patients with acute DVT reported that addition of a statin (rosuvastatin) to LMWH monotherapy was associated with a ...