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Why do patients with atrial fibrillation not receive warfarin?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a growing public health problem associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Numerous randomized controlled trials of warfarin have conclusively demonstrated that long-term anticoagulation therapy can reduce the risk for stroke by approximately 68% per year in patients with nonvalvular AF, and even more in patients with valvular AF. However, available data sh...

Do Not Open This Question Booklet until You Are Told to Do So

Do Not Turn This Page over until You Are Told to Do So

• You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. • Write your solutions in the exam booklet. We will not consider any work not in the exam booklet. • This quiz has three problems that are in no particular order of difficulty. • You may give an answer in the form of an arithmetic expression (sums, products, ratios, factorials) of numbers that could be evaluated using a calculator. Expressions like ( ...

What to Do until the Psychiatrist

* Presented at February 1963 Meeting of District V of The American Academy of Pediatrics. ** Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School. THE American I ~ediatriczan today, while entirely capable of taking care of the majority of his child patients himself, has available consultants to whom he can refer those special cases for w...

Controversies in the antiphospholipid syndrome: can we ever stop warfarin?

Patients with antiphospholipid syndrome are at increased risk for recurrent arterial and venous thrombosis and therefore benefit from long term warfarin therapy. The optimal duration of warfarin therapy after a first venous thromboembolic event is however a matter of some controversy and many questions remain unanswered. After reviewing and analysing the available evidence, we discuss some comm...