Medscape Bridging strategies with unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) came with strong wording to "balance the risks of stroke and bleeding." My take on bridging is that it's no small thing. So I am glad for this language. In ... and more »
Wall Street Journal Sagent's award-winning innovation is its line of Heparin Sodium Injection, USP products with PreventIV Measures Packaging and Labeling. Heparin is an anticoagulant that is manufactured in numerous strengths that are used in a wide variety of procedures ... and more »
Roll Call In 2008, three Americans died after taking a contaminated version of the blood-thinning drug heparin that came from China. In 2012, the FDA found counterfeit Avastin, a cancer drug, in the United States and tracked it back to a foreign source. For ...
The Oncology Report MADRID – The selective factor Xa inhibitor fondaparinux was as effective as low-molecular-weight heparin in preventing venous thromboembolism following resection of esophageal cancer in a prospective, randomized trial. Deep vein thrombosis was ...
News-Medical.net Low-molecular-weight heparin is commonly used in surgeries to prevent dangerous blood clots. But when patients experience the other extreme - uncontrolled bleeding - in response to low-molecular-weight heparin , there is no antidote. Now researchers at ...
Healio Patients with previous heparin -induced thrombocytopenia, or HIT, who were re-exposed to heparin demonstrated a low risk for recurrent HIT, yet the development of strong heparin -independent platelet-activating antibodies increased that risk, according ...
Science Codex WASHINGTON (March 31, 2014) — In a comparison of two blood-thinning medications, heparin was associated with significantly fewer major cardiovascular eve...
