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Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients
The main complication of anticoagulant therapy is major bleeding. Clinicians are usually aware of these side effects and are careful when managing the therapeutic range of vitamin K antagonist drugs. But major bleeding, while life-threatening, can be overlooked if there are no visible signs of bleed...
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De Gruyter Open
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29967876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2017-0012 |
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| author | Carretero, Rafael García |
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| description | The main complication of anticoagulant therapy is major bleeding. Clinicians are usually aware of these side effects and are careful when managing the therapeutic range of vitamin K antagonist drugs. But major bleeding, while life-threatening, can be overlooked if there are no visible signs of bleeding. Two cases are described in which inaccurate diagnoses lead to inadequate treatment. |
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| spelling | pubmed-57699132018-07-02 Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients Carretero, Rafael García J Crit Care Med (Targu Mures) Case Report The main complication of anticoagulant therapy is major bleeding. Clinicians are usually aware of these side effects and are careful when managing the therapeutic range of vitamin K antagonist drugs. But major bleeding, while life-threatening, can be overlooked if there are no visible signs of bleeding. Two cases are described in which inaccurate diagnoses lead to inadequate treatment. De Gruyter Open 2017-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5769913/ /pubmed/29967876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2017-0012 Text en © 2017 Walter De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Carretero, Rafael García Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title | Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title_full | Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title_fullStr | Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title_short | Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients |
| title_sort | non-obvious, post-traumatic, life-threatening bleeding in two elderly patients |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29967876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2017-0012 |
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