Interaction of vitamin K antagonists with heparin affect monitoring by activated clotting times

Background Unfractionated heparin is recommended during atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation to achieve activated clotting time (ACT) above 250–300 s to prevent clot. Many patients on therapeutic international normalised ratio (INR) undergo AF ablation procedures; however, it is unknown whether they re...

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Published in:	Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 89 - 94
Main Authors:	Muntwyler, Jorg, Attenhofer Jost, Christine H., Diefenbacher, Werner, Beer, Jürg H., Nikolic, Rada, Amanpour, Feri, Faeh-Gunz, Anja, Naegeli, Barbara, Straumann, Edwin H., Maurer, Dominik, Candinas, Reto, Dang, Lam, Scharf, Christoph
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Boston Springer US 01-03-2010 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Anticoagulants Cardiology Drug Interactions Female Heparin - administration & dosage Humans International Normalized Ratio - methods Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Vitamin K - antagonists & inhibitors Whole Blood Coagulation Time - methods Radiofrequency ablation INR Heparin
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