OBJECTIVE Post-thrombotic syndrome causes considerable morbidity. The Home-LITE study showed a lower incidence of post-thrombotic syndrome and venous ulcers after 3 months of treating deep vein thrombosis with the low-molecular-weight heparin tinzaparin versus oral anticoagulation. This systematic review examined whether long-term treatment of deep vein thrombosis using low-molecular-weight hep...

The efficacy of low-molecular-weight heparin as a prophylactic agent was assessed in 150 consecutive patients over the age of 40 undergoing major abdominal surgery. Fifty of these patients received 1250 activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) units of low-molecular-weight heparin every 12 hours: three developed isotopic deep vein thrombosis, which was confirmed by phlebography in two cases...

BACKGROUND Postoperative venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism present a major clinical threat to patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty. We performed an economic evaluation of warfarin sodium and subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin sodium prophylaxis comparing cost and effectiveness. METHODS A consecutive series of 1436 patients who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty com...

High and low affinity heparin (HA and LA heparin) were prepared from commercial heparin by affinity chromatography to insolubilized antithrombin III. HA heparin was radiolabeled with 35S and subdivided by gel chromatography into high molecular weight (HMW, average 17,000-26,000 daltons), intermediate molecular weight (MMW, average 12,000-13,000 daltons), low molecular weight (LMW, average 5,000...

Heparin and low molecular weight heparins are major clinical anticoagulants and the drugs of choice for the treatment of deep venous thrombosis. The discovery of an antithrombin binding domain in heparin focused interest on understanding the mechanism of heparin's antithrombotic/ anticoagulant activity. Various heparin-mimetic oligosaccharides have been prepared in an effort to replace polydisp...

BACKGROUND An intravenous course of unfractionated heparin adjusted on the basis of the activated partial thromboplastin time is the initial treatment of choice for most patients with venous thromboembolism. Recently introduced low-molecular-weight heparin preparations can be administered subcutaneously, once or twice daily, without laboratory monitoring. We quantitatively assessed the relative...