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Retroperitoneal hemorrhagic shock in a patient on warfarin therapy

Oral anticoagulants are an established treatment modality in the prophylaxis of thromboembolic events in various clinical scenarios. Needless to say that, bleeding is a natural adverse effect of this drug. Most of the times bleeding is inconsequential. But nevertheless massive and fatal bleeding can...

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Autores principales: Subramanian, Sankar, Gounder, Subramanian Marappa, Thirunarayanan, Arunkumar, Kannan, Anand, Venu, Nandigam
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561977
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.50752
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Sumario:Oral anticoagulants are an established treatment modality in the prophylaxis of thromboembolic events in various clinical scenarios. Needless to say that, bleeding is a natural adverse effect of this drug. Most of the times bleeding is inconsequential. But nevertheless massive and fatal bleeding can occur occasionally. The case reported here is rare, as the patient presented with massive hemoperitoneum due to mesenteric hemorrhage and hemorrhagic infarction of small bowel necessitating Laparotomy resection.