Retropharyngeal Hematoma due to Oral Warfarin Usage

Retropharyngeal hematoma due to anticoagulant usage is a rare, life-threatening situation which must be immediately diagnosed and treated. Immediate control of the airway and coagulopathy are the bases of treatment management. Patients often respond to conservative treatment but occasionally urgent...

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Autores principales: TOKER, Ibrahim, DUMAN ATILLA, Ozge, YESILARAS, Murat, URSAVAS, Burcu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27437516
http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.25594
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author TOKER, Ibrahim
DUMAN ATILLA, Ozge
YESILARAS, Murat
URSAVAS, Burcu
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description Retropharyngeal hematoma due to anticoagulant usage is a rare, life-threatening situation which must be immediately diagnosed and treated. Immediate control of the airway and coagulopathy are the bases of treatment management. Patients often respond to conservative treatment but occasionally urgent tracheostomy and endotracheal intubation may be necessary. We presented a case of retropharyngeal hematoma secondary to warfarin usage in a 49-year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-49099682016-07-19 Retropharyngeal Hematoma due to Oral Warfarin Usage TOKER, Ibrahim DUMAN ATILLA, Ozge YESILARAS, Murat URSAVAS, Burcu Turk J Emerg Med Case Report Retropharyngeal hematoma due to anticoagulant usage is a rare, life-threatening situation which must be immediately diagnosed and treated. Immediate control of the airway and coagulopathy are the bases of treatment management. Patients often respond to conservative treatment but occasionally urgent tracheostomy and endotracheal intubation may be necessary. We presented a case of retropharyngeal hematoma secondary to warfarin usage in a 49-year-old male. Elsevier 2016-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4909968/ /pubmed/27437516 http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/1304.7361.2014.25594 Text en © 2014 Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. Originally published in [2014] by Kare Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27437516
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