... of anticoagulant medications. This review summarizes challenges, recommendations, and current developments of anticoagulation in the cirrhotic patient. Summary: The risk of thrombotic events in patients with liver cirrhosis is at least as high as in patients with healthy liver function if not even higher. Standard...

...Wolfgang Fischbach Background: Platelet inhibition and anticoagulation are widely used therapeutic approaches in many patients. Despite their undoubted cardiovascular benefits, they may cause gastrointestinal harm either spontaneously or as part of endoscopic procedures. Strategies which harmonize...

...Ulrich Hink; Thomas Voigtländer Background: In modern cardiology, anticoagulation and antiaggregation are key components of current treatment strategies. However, in patients treated with anticoagulation and antiplatelet substances, bleeding is a major risk. Findings: In all major cardiovascular...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Acute liver failure Anticoagulation Bleeding Cirrhosis Portal hypertension Alterations in hemostasis are a characteristic feature of advanced liver disease [ 1,2,3 ]. Traditionally, impaired protein synthesis (affecting...

... the surgical management of RSH, since the majority of cases is treated non-surgically, but our case proves that hematoma may expand and lead to hemodynamic instability and death within 24 h after onset, despite aggressive resuscitative measures. We cannot know for sure if anticoagulant and steroid therapy had...

... are also known. Methods: This review discusses nonsurgical treatment options in PVT. Results and Conclusion: Therapy of acute PVT is based on anticoagulation with heparin that is switched to oral anticoagulants, if applicable. Catheter-guided invasive therapy should be considered; however, patients...

...Martin Rössle; Birke Bausch; Christoph Klinger Background: Treatment of non-malignant portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis has been neglected in the past because of the fear of bleeding complications when using anticoagulation and due to the technical difficulties associated...