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Clinical factors influencing normalization of prothrombin time after stopping warfarin: a retrospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: Anticoagulation with warfarin should be stopped 4–6 days before invasive procedures to avoid bleeding complications. Despite this routine, some patients still have high International Normalized Ratio (INR) values on the day of surgery and the procedure may be cancelled. We sought to iden...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18925967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-6-15 |