Haemorrhage Complicating Anticoagulant Therapy
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these episodes 16 were serious. Hazard et al (1967) reported ten cases of intracranial haemorrhage during a two and a half year pertiod. iSeventy-six haemorrhagic episodes were reported duning the treatment of 507 patients during a five year period (Serradiim'igni, 1969) while Straub (1970) recorded 13 deaths from haemorrhage in 70 patients treated with anticoagulant therapy. Bleeding was detected during 263 (6.8%) out of 3,862 courses of anticoagulant therapy with an identifiable
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دوره 90 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1975