Overview
Explains how to select the appropriate anticoagulation therapy for an individual patient’s needs
Includes chapters on cardiovascular disease, autoimmune and rheumatologic disorders, cancer, and surgery
Discusses anticoagulants for complicated patients, pediatrics, old age, renal insufficiency, and extreme weights
Provides a quick guide for bridging anticoagulation and reversal of anticoagulation in case of bleeding or emergency
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a practical guide to the use of novel and conventional anticoagulants for a variety of medical conditions and patients profiled. It reviews data for selecting the most appropriate medication for a given presentation based on a patient’s background while highlighting current best practices. Chapters discuss the choice of agents and optimum duration of therapy while including the relevant literature review and evidence. Specific sections focus on the use of anticoagulants in patients with cardiovascular disease, autoimmune and rheumatologic disorders, antiphospholipid syndrome, cancer, and in the surgical contexts. The book also examines anticoagulation in pregnant and lactating women, pediatric and elderly populations, and patients with extreme weights.
Intended for use in daily practice, Precision Anticoagulation Medicine - A Practical Guide is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, and graduate students in hematology, cardiology, rheumatology, oncology, surgery, anesthesiology, and intensive care.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hadi Goubran, MBBCh, MSc, MD, FACP, FRCPEdin.
Hematologist, Saskatoon Cancer Centre and
Clinical Professor, Division of OncologyCollege of Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Gaafar M. Ragab, MBBCh, MSc, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Unit
Faculty of Medicine
Fellow, American College of RheumatologyCairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Suzy Hassouna, MD, Ph.D.
Carl and Elsa Rehberg Hematology Research Professor
Professor of Medicine
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precision Anticoagulation Medicine
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Editors: Hadi Goubran, Gaafar Ragab, Suzy Hassouna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25782-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25781-1Published: 31 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25782-8Published: 30 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 308
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hematology, Cardiology, Rheumatology