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Do you hold anticoagulation prior to prostate brachytherapy?

If so, when do you resume?
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Radiation Oncology · Beaumont Hospital
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Yes, but always per the patient's cardiologist's recommendation.

Also not even after the designated time for withholding meds may still be anti coaged so we get pt/ptt morning of the procedure.

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