Hip arthroplasty fatality related to dabigatran induced gastrointestinal haemorrhage

We report a fatality due to massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a patient receiving prophylactic dabigatran etexilate following a total hip replacement. A 79-year-old woman was commenced on dabigatran for venous thromboembolic prophylaxis following a total hip replacement. She presented again fo...

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Autores principales: Carter, A, Sarda, P, George, M, Corbett, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2014
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Online Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24417860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588414X13824511649779
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description We report a fatality due to massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a patient receiving prophylactic dabigatran etexilate following a total hip replacement. A 79-year-old woman was commenced on dabigatran for venous thromboembolic prophylaxis following a total hip replacement. She presented again four days after surgery with haematemesis and hypotension but her coagulopathy could not be corrected, leading to her death. This case highlights the lack of reversal agent for dabigatran etexilate that resulted in this fatal complication.
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spelling pubmed-51376452016-12-20 Hip arthroplasty fatality related to dabigatran induced gastrointestinal haemorrhage Carter, A Sarda, P George, M Corbett, S Ann R Coll Surg Engl Online Case Report We report a fatality due to massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a patient receiving prophylactic dabigatran etexilate following a total hip replacement. A 79-year-old woman was commenced on dabigatran for venous thromboembolic prophylaxis following a total hip replacement. She presented again four days after surgery with haematemesis and hypotension but her coagulopathy could not be corrected, leading to her death. This case highlights the lack of reversal agent for dabigatran etexilate that resulted in this fatal complication. Royal College of Surgeons 2014-01 2014-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5137645/ /pubmed/24417860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588414X13824511649779 Text en Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Hip arthroplasty fatality related to dabigatran induced gastrointestinal haemorrhage
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title_sort hip arthroplasty fatality related to dabigatran induced gastrointestinal haemorrhage
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5137645/
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