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Anticoagulants: To bleed or not to bleed, that is the question

Seminars in Vascular Surgery, 2002
Thromboembolic vascular diseases remain the main cause of death in Western industrialized societies. Anticoagulants retard the formation, growth, and embolization of thrombi and are effective agents in the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease.
Monica S, Da Silva, Michael, Sobel
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To bleed or not to bleed: What is the factor?

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2009
Keywords: factor VIII inhibitor; acquired hemophilia A; bleeding disorder; isolated elevated aPTT; coagulation ...
Felicitas, Thol, Cornelius, Cornell, Gabriele, Popp   +2 more
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To bleed or not to bleed, that is the question

Contraception, 2007
Menstruation may be considered the endocrine equivalent of miscarriage. In both menstruation and miscarriage endometrial shedding is provoked by the sudden decline in estrogen and progesterone that occurs when fertilization or implantation fails to take place or is defective. The monthly bleeding is therefore the result of repeated reproductive failure
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To bleed or not to bleed? is that the question for the PTT?

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2005
The activated partial thromboplastin time (PTT) is the grandchild of the Lee-White whole blood clot time (WBCT). Both tests were developed to assist the diagnostic process for patients who exhibited features consistent with hemophilia, i.e., the pretest probability was extremely high. Probably
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Bleeders, bleeding rates, and bleeding score

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2013
Bleeding symptoms are frequently reported even in otherwise healthy subjects, and differentiating a normal subject from a patient with a mild bleeding disorder (MBD) can be extremely challenging. The concept of bleeding rate, that is, the number of bleeding episodes occurring within a definite time, could be used as the unifying framework reconciling ...
A, Tosetto, G, Castaman, F, Rodeghiero
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Postmenopausal Bleeding

Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1974
ABSTRACT: During a two‐year period, 363 women with postmenopausal bleeding were studied. Included were women in whom the menses had been absent for one or more years and women treated with exogenous estrogens for at least one year.
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Postoperative Bleeding: Coagulopathy, Bleeding, Hemothorax

Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2006
Several issues are involved in determining a patient's risk for postoperative hemorrhage and in managing this potential postoperative complication. The impact of minimally invasive procedures on the incidence of this complication is addressed in this article.
Virginia R, Litle, Scott J, Swanson
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Bleeding by the numbers: The utility and the limitations of bleeding scores, bleeding prediction tools, and bleeding case definitions

Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 2018
A patient's history of bleeding, whether spontaneous or in response to challenges, provides important information about both the likelihood of that patient having a biochemically-defined hemostatic defect, and that patient's risk of future bleeding. Other variables including age, comorbidities and medications influence these probabilities.
Emily K, Rimmer, Donald S, Houston
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To Bleed or Not to Bleed, That is the Question

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Abstract Intro: In the setting of an active bleed the use of anticoagulation is recommended against due to the risk of worsening bleed and hemodynamic compromise. When a patient has a high risk for thrombosis non-pharmacologic therapies are preferred.
N. Shafi, E. Patten, S. Hossain, E. Ohwofahworaye   +3 more
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The Bleeding Nipple

Postgraduate Medicine, 1951
There is wide divergence of opinion concerning the significance of discharge from the otherwise intact nipple. This is especially true of bloody discharge. The importance and causes of this symptom are discussed and a plan of investigation and treatment is presented. The methods outlined have proved satisfactory in clinical practice.
J W, CLINE, P R, WESTDAHL
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