Why the study?
Does anticoagulant prophylaxis with dicumarol reduce thromboembolic complications without increasing bleeding risk in patients with mitral stenosis undergoing mitral commissurotomy?
Does anticoagulant prophylaxis with dicumarol reduce thromboembolic complications without increasing bleeding risk in patients with mitral stenosis undergoing mitral commissurotomy?
Anticoagulant prophylaxis with dicumarol during mitral commissurotomy appears to reduce thromboembolic events without causing serious bleeding when prothrombin levels are carefully monitored.
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May support monitored anticoagulation in mitral commissurotomy; leaves open randomized confirmation in contemporary cohorts.
Storm et al. (1955) studied this question.
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