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Advances in Oral Coagulants
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
Abstract:
This article reviews current and future treatment practices concerning oral anticoagulants. In the second decade of the 21st millennium clinicians can finally treat thrombotic disease with long-awaited new oral anticoagulant medications. In addition, improvements have been made in managing warfarin, the traditional but far from obsolete medication. The first part of this review will cover current advances with warfarin treatment. The second portion will discuss specific active coagulation factor inhibitors, the new oral anticoagulants.
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