Is the risk of major bleeding the only reason to be concerned about oral anticoagulant therapy in chronic kidney disease patients? We consider another potential adverse effect of long-term Coumadin use in chronic kidney disease patients as comparably devastating: the threat of inducing creeping vascular calcification.

Warfarin : to use or not to use in chronic kidney disease patients? / M. Cozzolino, V. Brandenburg. - In: JN. JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY. - ISSN 1121-8428. - 23:6(2010), pp. 648-652.

Warfarin : to use or not to use in chronic kidney disease patients?

M. Cozzolino
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2010

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Is the risk of major bleeding the only reason to be concerned about oral anticoagulant therapy in chronic kidney disease patients? We consider another potential adverse effect of long-term Coumadin use in chronic kidney disease patients as comparably devastating: the threat of inducing creeping vascular calcification.
Chronic kidney disease; Matrix Gla protein; Vascular calcification; Vitamin K; Warfarin
Settore MED/14 - Nefrologia
2010
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