Erschienen in:
01.02.2016
Measurement tools and antidotes for non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants
verfasst von:
Richard C. Becker
Erschienen in:
Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
Thrombosis is ubiquitous in medicine and society. It can either be protective, stemming blood loss following vascular injury (hemostasis) or life-threatening when occurring without good cause. Thrombosis occurring within an artery is the proximate etiology of myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke, affecting 750,000 and 1 million persons, respectively, each year in the United States. Thrombosis within a vein causes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, with up to 600,000 cases yearly and up to a 30 % case fatality rate if untreated. …