Incidence and predictors of excessive warfarin anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation-The EWA study.

Vitamin K antagonist warfarin is widely used in clinical practice and excessive anticoagulation is a well-known complication of this therapy. Little is known about permanent and temporary predictors for severe overanticoagulation. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence and predictin...

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Main Authors: Samuli Jaakkola, Ilpo Nuotio, Tuomas O Kiviniemi, Raine Virtanen, Melina Issakoff, K E Juhani Airaksinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5398615?pdf=render