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Anticoagulation after intracoronary stent insertion.
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  1. M J Brack,
  2. P J Hubner,
  3. A H Gershlick
  1. Academic Department of Cardiology, University of Leicester, Glenfield General Hospital.

    Abstract

    Stents rarely thrombose in the first 24 hours after implantation; secondly, heparin has some influence on the extrinsic pathway. Additionally, if too much heparin is present it interferes with the INR, and the half life of prothrombin suggests that the patient should be anticoagulated with heparin for up to 96 hours after starting warfarin. This is the evidence on which our standard protocol is based.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.72.3.294

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