The content of these pages is from a presentation
called "Management of Oral Anticoagulant Therapy: Principles &
Practice," prepared by the American
Heart Association's Post-Graduate Education Committee of the Council on
Clinical Cardiology. Supported by an educational grant from DuPont
Pharmaceuticals.
Authors: Jack Ansell, M.D., Jack Hirsch, M.D., Nanette
K. Wenger, M.D.
Data current as of October 1999.
Endorsed by the Anticoagulation
Forum and the American Heart Association Council on Atherosclerosis,
Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
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