Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment

We present a case of two separated life-threatening postoperative bleeding complications after mandible cancer resection and microsurgical fibula flap in a patient under permanent warfarin treatment. We used fresh frozen plasma, prothrombin complex concentrate to control bleedings. We consider to ma...

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Autores principales: Medina, Abelardo, Velasco Martinez, Ignacio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6968665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32002456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2019.1699416
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description We present a case of two separated life-threatening postoperative bleeding complications after mandible cancer resection and microsurgical fibula flap in a patient under permanent warfarin treatment. We used fresh frozen plasma, prothrombin complex concentrate to control bleedings. We consider to maintain similar patients in heparin/enoxaparin bridging for 1–2 weeks.
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spelling pubmed-69686652020-01-30 Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment Medina, Abelardo Velasco Martinez, Ignacio Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report We present a case of two separated life-threatening postoperative bleeding complications after mandible cancer resection and microsurgical fibula flap in a patient under permanent warfarin treatment. We used fresh frozen plasma, prothrombin complex concentrate to control bleedings. We consider to maintain similar patients in heparin/enoxaparin bridging for 1–2 weeks. Taylor & Francis 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6968665/ /pubmed/32002456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2019.1699416 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
title_full Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
title_fullStr Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
title_full_unstemmed Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
title_short Management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
title_sort management of two major postoperative bleeding complications after mandible reconstruction with fibula free flap in a patient under chronic warfarin treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6968665/
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