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Search Results for Anticoagulant
Abstract Number: 259
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Perioperative management of anticoagulant in mechanical valve patients is challenging, Current recommendations focus on management in patients undergoing elective surgery, while the data in patients hospitalized for emergency/urgency non-cardiac surgery is limited. We aimed to identify thromboembolic and bleeding events after anticoagulant interruption in patients with mechanical heart valves hospitalized for emergency/urgent non-cardiac surgery. […]
Abstract Number: 395
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been approved for conditions such as non-valvular atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolism. High quality randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of DOACs as compared to warfarin with exceptions in specific patient populations (such as those with mechanical heart valves). DOACs are more convenient and generally […]
Abstract Number: 494
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old man presented with dyspnea, wheezing and productive cough. He was hypoxemic and a chest radiograph revealed a left lower lobe infiltrate and he was admitted with a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease exacerbation and pneumonia. His troponin was mildly elevated and he was started on a heparin infusion. The intravenous line infusing […]
Abstract Number: 638
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male underwent vascular repair for a psuedoaneurysm of left brachiocephalic arteriovenous fistula. During surgery he was noted to have excessive bleeding and also postoperatively, he continued to ooze from the surgical site. His labs revealed PT of 33.5 seconds, INR of 3.3, and PTT of 53.7 seconds. His mixing studies showed […]
Abstract Number: 746
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain and lower extremity swelling while taking low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH). One month prior she was diagnosed with a left lower extremity DVT after a hysterectomy. She was treated with LMWH with a planned transition to rivaroxaban. Medical history […]
Abstract Number: J45
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 51-year-old male with PMHx of tobacco abuse who presented to the emergency room (ER) with left flank pain for 1 month. He was involved in a motor vehicle collision while driving his motorcycle four weeks ago. He initially presented to an urgent care for pain where he was found […]
Abstract Number: P35
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old man with a history of well controlled seizures presented with a swollen left leg, hypoxia and palpitations after a trans-Atlantic flight. Chest computed tomography showed bilateral subsegmental pulmonary emboli, with no evidence of right heart strain. Doppler ultrasonography of the lower extremities showed significant clot burden in the left femoral, popliteal, […]