The article highlights the case history of a 61-year-old woman with warfarin-associated calciphylaxis with normal renal function. The patient was admitted to the hospital with extensive necrotic skin lesions in her thighs, buttocks, distal legs and abdominal wall and had a history of diabetes and...
Each laboratory establishes a normal or control value based on the method used to perform the PT test. The PT measures the amount of time it takes in seconds for clot formation, the international normalized ratio (INR) is calculated from a PT result to monitor the effectiveness of warfarin....
The prothrombin time (PT) assay is the most clinically ordered coagulation test, and most often used for monitoring of vitamin K antagonist therapy (e.g., warfarin), where results are expressed as an international normalised ratio (INR). The INR is in essence the patient's PT 'mathematically...
While sulindac failed to affect significantly warfarin-induced hypoprothrombinemia in normal male volunteers, it markedly prolonged prothrombin time in a patient with a renal tubular defect who had been anticoagulated with warfarin. This difference in individual response with respect to a drug ...
There are numerous different alerts within this Daily Checklist that are used to bring attention to key issues or patient therapy opportunities at our medical center. Some examples of these rules include oral therapy conversion opportunities, warfarin therapy administered without monitoring orders being ...