Care of Patients Receiving Long-Term Anticoagulant Therapy
- 14 August 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (7), 675-683
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcp025373
Abstract
A 75-year-old man with diabetes mellitus is found to have chronic atrial fibrillation, and warfarin therapy is begun for the prevention of thromboembolic stroke. How should the anticoagulant therapy be initiated and managed?Keywords
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