Vitamin K antagonists: impact on hospitalizations and accesses to emergency room
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Vitamin K antagonists
For the last decades, anticoagulation for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF) as well as for the prophylaxis and long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism has been entirely based on vitamin K antagonists (VKA). Although very effective under optimal conditions, long-term treatment with these drugs is flawed by the fact that the time in the therapeutic range frequently is suboptimal...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx186.179