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Case report on interaction of warfarin with herbal medicine “kadha”

With the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, and a lack of proper preventive and therapeutic treatment, herbal medicine is frequently used by many people to increase the immune status of the body. We describe a case of a 56 year-old-man stabilized on warfarin (7 mg daily) from 12 yea...

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Autores principales: Premchand, Rajendra Kumar, Samnani, Nikita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cardiological Society of India. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8184357/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihjccr.2021.06.001
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description With the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, and a lack of proper preventive and therapeutic treatment, herbal medicine is frequently used by many people to increase the immune status of the body. We describe a case of a 56 year-old-man stabilized on warfarin (7 mg daily) from 12 years, experienced an elevated international normalized ratio (INR) of 5.45 after the consumption of an Indian traditional herbal drink “kadha” as a precautionary measure to prevent COVID-19 infection.
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spelling pubmed-81843572021-06-08 Case report on interaction of warfarin with herbal medicine “kadha” Premchand, Rajendra Kumar Samnani, Nikita IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (CVCR) Case Report With the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, and a lack of proper preventive and therapeutic treatment, herbal medicine is frequently used by many people to increase the immune status of the body. We describe a case of a 56 year-old-man stabilized on warfarin (7 mg daily) from 12 years, experienced an elevated international normalized ratio (INR) of 5.45 after the consumption of an Indian traditional herbal drink “kadha” as a precautionary measure to prevent COVID-19 infection. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cardiological Society of India. 2021 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8184357/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihjccr.2021.06.001 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Cardiological Society of India. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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