We conducted a study of patients with acute pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension or right ventricular dysfunction but without arterial hypotension or shock. The patients were randomly ...

When you have deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in a vein deep inside your body, doctors try to keep the clot from getting bigger and stop new clots from forming. One of their top priorities is ...

The need for different heparin dosing protocols for obese and nonobese patients was studied. A chart review was performed for all patients who received heparin over an eightmonth period at an acute ...

To evaluate the effect of low-dose heparin on duration of peripherally inserted percutaneous central venous catheter (PCVC) patency and catheter occlusion. The main objective of this study was to ...

In 1988, Wheeler et al. [8] reported that physicians treating patients for pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis frequently underdosed their patients and were slow to change their heparin ...