Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature

Recent advances in the pediatric heart surgery, especially the Fontan procedure, has necessitated an increased use of oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac patients. Warfarin is the standard agent used for most pediatric indications, though there are very few randomized control studies in childre...

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Autores principales: Jain, Shreepal, Vaidyanathan, Balu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Drug Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814473
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.64371
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description Recent advances in the pediatric heart surgery, especially the Fontan procedure, has necessitated an increased use of oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac patients. Warfarin is the standard agent used for most pediatric indications, though there are very few randomized control studies in children regarding its use. This review summarizes the current indications and evidence base regarding the use of oral anticoagulants in the pediatric age group.
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spelling pubmed-29215152010-09-02 Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature Jain, Shreepal Vaidyanathan, Balu Ann Pediatr Cardiol Drug Review Recent advances in the pediatric heart surgery, especially the Fontan procedure, has necessitated an increased use of oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac patients. Warfarin is the standard agent used for most pediatric indications, though there are very few randomized control studies in children regarding its use. This review summarizes the current indications and evidence base regarding the use of oral anticoagulants in the pediatric age group. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2921515/ /pubmed/20814473 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.64371 Text en © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title_full Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title_fullStr Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title_short Oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: A systematic review of the literature
title_sort oral anticoagulants in pediatric cardiac practice: a systematic review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921515/
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