Internal Medicine

Thrombosis

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause in a patient with increased risk factors for VTE?

Risk factors such as hereditary thrombophilia without personal thrombosis, family history of thrombophilia or thrombosis, etc.

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For patients with newly diagnosed VTE on IV heparin planned for transition to DOAC, would you start at the loading or maintenance DOAC dose?

If they have been on IV heparin for 3 days, for example, would you subtract those days from the recommended loading dose time?

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Papers discussed in this category

Blood advances, 2024 Jul 09

Decision theoretical foundations of clinical practice guidelines: an extension of the ASH thrombophilia guidelines.

Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28

American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.

BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2010 Sep 16

A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making.

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