PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M J Brack
AU  - P J Hubner
AU  - A H Gershlick
TI  - Anticoagulation after intracoronary stent insertion.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.72.3.294
DP  - 1994 Sep 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 294--296
VI  - 72
IP  - 3
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/72/3/294.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/72/3/294.full
SO  - Heart1994 Sep 01; 72
AB  - 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.