Authors say findings warrant re-examining approach to managing anticoagulation in older adults. (HealthDay News) — Having a supratherapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) while taking warfarin ...

For patients on long-term oral anticoagulation therapy, use of point-of-care devices is associated with lower rates of death and major thromboembolic events compared with laboratory determinations of ...

a Patient had a surgical procedure in April for which his warfarin was discontinued for five days. b During this visit, the patient was prescribed prednisone 10 mg orally daily and his warfarin dosage ...

An elderly patient with prosthetic mitral and aortic valves has had two small, presumably cardioembolic strokes while anticoagulated (international normalized ratio [INR] 2.5-3.5). Would increasing ...

Why the Sudden INR Increase? A 76-year-old man is admitted with increasing shortness of breath. He has a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has had a recent productive ...

A group of St. Michael's Hospital researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help clinicians prescribe warfarin to heart surgery patients. The tool is currently in use at St.