In patients with NSTE-ACS on heparin monotherapy during PCI, lower activated clotting time (ACT) values do not predict bleeding events but do correlate with higher risk of ischemic events, according ...

Credit: Shutterstock. Researchers related maximal ACT to the risk of major bleeding in 14,634 patients undergoing TR or TF PCI with unfractionated heparin monotherapy. HealthDay News — Higher maximal ...

Drug resistance is defined as the lack of expected response to a standard therapeutic dose of a drug or as resistance resulting from biologic changes in the target, as occurs in antibiotic resistance.

Lower doses of the drug protamine to reverse heparin after cardiopulmonary bypass are associated with shorter clotting times than traditional doses, according to a study reported in Anesthesiology ...

February 17, 2010 (Paris, France) — A new-point-of care test that can be used in the cath lab to monitor anticoagulation levels of enoxaparin (Lovenox, Sanofi-Aventis) has been shown to give reliable ...

A 58-year-old man receiving hemodialysis after failed renal transplantation was admitted with unstable angina. He had a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, and ...

The hemostatic system of neonates is different from that of children and adults. Neonates have lower levels of most procoagulant factors, especially prothrombin, other factors of the prothrombin ...

While internal bleeding may be uncommon as a result of taking blood thinners such as Xarelto® (rivaroxaban) and Eliquis® (apixaban), the normal coagulation tests physicians use to check for the side ...

In situations that can lead to or be made more dangerous by excessive bleeding or clotting—such as heart and liver surgeries, major blood transfusions and severe trauma—it’s crucial that care teams ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists have shed new light -- literally -- on a possible way to starve cancer tumors or prevent side effects from a wide range of drugs. A lock-like molecule designed by University ...

With each passing day we learn more about SARS-CoV-2 and what it does to our cells and our bodies. It seems, according at least to anecdotal reports, that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can induce serious ...