DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Oral Warfarin
Warfarin
Warfarin (also known under the brand names Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, Waran, and Warfant) is an anticoagulant. It is most likely to be the drug popularly referred to as a "blood thinner," yet this is a misnomer, since it does not affect the thickness or viscosity of blood. Instead, it acts on the liver to decrease the quantity of a few key proteins in blood that allow blood to clot. It was initially marketed as a pesticide against rats and mice and is still popular for this purpose, although more potent poisons such as brodifacoum have since been developed...
Oral Warfarin - List of case studies
- Chronic Atrial Fibrillation in Patient with Prior Hemoptoic Episodes in Bilateral Bronchiectases
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atrial fibrillation (PAF) and has been recommended oral anti-coagulant therapy with warfarin (Coumadin). She has mitral regurgitation, and on the other hand was ... are there any alternative pharmacological therapies to the oral anticoagulant or to the antiaggregant ones? ...
- Massive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis
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is it necessary to continue this therapy before passing to oral Warfarin? 2) In the post-heparin phase are there any alternative therapies ...
- Drugs
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treatment with INR – antithrombotic theraphy (warfarin Anticonvulsants Antihistamines Antihypertensive drug ... Hypocholesterolemizing drug Hypoglycemizing oral drug I IGF1 IL-2 fusion proteins IMID INSULIN ...