Atrial fibrillation is the most common supraventricular tachycardia, incidence of which increases with age. This arrhythmia consequenсe multiple cardiac and noncardiac pathology. The significant side effects atrial are thromboembolic complications. It generally accepted that source these embolisms a thrombus in left appendage. However, risk thromboembolism also occurs after onset rhythm, can le...

Oral anticoagulation is the therapeutic cornerstone in preventing thromboembolic risk in both atrial fibrillation (AF) and venous thromboembolism (VTE). After decades of the sole therapeutic oral anticoagulation option being warfarin, the introduction of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants has heralded a new era. Edoxaban is the latest addition to these available for clinical use. Edox...

Chronic obstruction of pulmonary arteries can be due to a variety of disease processes, including chronic thromboembolic disease, fibrosing mediastinitis, or neoplasia. Large vessel arteritis is another unusual cause of pulmonary artery obstruction and can be difficult to distinguish from the above-listed etiologies. We present four patients referred to our institution with the provisional diag...

Thromboembolic complications are the second leading cause of death in cancer patients. In contrast to the large body of literature on venous thromboembolism (VTE), relatively few reports have focused on the pathogenesis, incidence, management and outcomes of arterial thromboembolic events in patients with malignancy. The purpose of this article is to review the current literature on the etiolog...

We describe surgical treatment for a patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who developed acute type A aortic dissection. Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening disease and must be operated emergently, and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension can be treated only by pulmonary endarterectomy. We performed a staged procedure consisting of hemiarch replacement wi...

Warfarin sodium is one of the most commonly prescribed oral anticoagulants, It has been proven to be an effective agent in the prophylaxis of thromboembolic disease and fatal pulmonary embolism in total joint arthroplasty and emergency hip fracture surgery. A rare, undesirable side effect of warfarin is skin necrosis. The authors present a case of skin necrosis after use of warfarin for prophyl...