Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy

Warfarin, a commonly used oral anticoagulant, is associated with several adverse drug reactions, principally bleeding. Of all hemorrhagic complications from warfarin therapy, thoracic hemorrhage accounts for only 3% and is usually related to trauma. Cases of spontaneous hemothorax secondary to antic...

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Autores principales: Al-Obaidi, Ammar, Tuck, Nicholas, Al-Hadeethi, Daly, Mohammed, Alaeldin, Truong, Quoc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34123622
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14923
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author Al-Obaidi, Ammar
Tuck, Nicholas
Al-Hadeethi, Daly
Mohammed, Alaeldin
Truong, Quoc
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description Warfarin, a commonly used oral anticoagulant, is associated with several adverse drug reactions, principally bleeding. Of all hemorrhagic complications from warfarin therapy, thoracic hemorrhage accounts for only 3% and is usually related to trauma. Cases of spontaneous hemothorax secondary to anticoagulation therapy are rarely reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-81892672021-06-10 Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy Al-Obaidi, Ammar Tuck, Nicholas Al-Hadeethi, Daly Mohammed, Alaeldin Truong, Quoc Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Warfarin, a commonly used oral anticoagulant, is associated with several adverse drug reactions, principally bleeding. Of all hemorrhagic complications from warfarin therapy, thoracic hemorrhage accounts for only 3% and is usually related to trauma. Cases of spontaneous hemothorax secondary to anticoagulation therapy are rarely reported in the literature. Cureus 2021-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8189267/ /pubmed/34123622 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14923 Text en Copyright © 2021, Al-Obaidi et al. https://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 author and source are credited.
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title Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy
title_full Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy
title_fullStr Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy
title_short Spontaneous, Loculated, and Massive Hemothorax: An Uncommon Complication of Warfarin Therapy
title_sort spontaneous, loculated, and massive hemothorax: an uncommon complication of warfarin therapy
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189267/
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