BACKGROUND Real-world studies on anticoagulants are mostly performed on health insurance databases, limited to reported events, and sometimes far from every-day issues in family practice. We assess the presence of data for safe monitoring of oral anticoagulants in general practice, and compare patients' knowledge of taking an anticoagulant between vitamin K antagonists (VKA) and direct anticoag...

Stony Brook University (NY, USA) has recently announced that Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Danny Bluestein, has received a US$7.5 million Phase II Quantum grant from the US NIH; this is the first time that a professor from Stony Brook has received this grant. The goal of the project is the assessment and improvement of various cardio vascular (CVS) devices, with the ultimate goal of elim...

We report the case of a 71-year-old woman diagnosed with recent inferior myocardial infarction complicated with right ventricular infarction and a right ventricular thrombus. Three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography, contrast-enhanced computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging clearly detected a thrombus. We consider cases with a recent right ventricular infarction to r...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate and subtherapeutic anticoagulants dosages may result in severe thromboembolic and bleeding complications. The use of this treatment requires special attention and strict clinical and laboratory follow-up. OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with appropriate control of the oral anticoagulant use, assessing the patients' knowledge and perception of the treatment. ...

introduction: the aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to assess the general dental practitioners (gdps)’s knowledge regarding the emergency management of traumatic dental injuries (tdi) in isfahan, iran. methods and materials: in this study a two-part questionnaire consisting of 14 questions was distributed among 241 gdps. part 1 included seven questions focusing on personal and p...

OBJECTIVE: to identify risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the peripartum period and to provide guidelines for risk assessment and thromboprophylactic measures for VTE in pregnant women. Guidelines for diagnostic testing and for acute and long term treatment of VTE are also provided.OPTIONS: specific subgroups of pregnant women are defined and appropriate prophylactic measures are ...