[Complications of anticoagulant treatment. Report of 98 accidents and incidents (author's transl)]
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[Complications of anticoagulant treatment. Report of 98 accidents and incidents (author's transl)]
Abstract
According to an estimation on 1 587 patients under anticoagulant treatment, 84 of them have caught a therapeutic accident so a frequency of 5,3 per cent. It concerns 98 therapeutic accidents : 89 haemorrhagic spontaneous accidents (11 digestive haemorrhages, 5 cerebro-vascular accidents, 54 hematomas with 18 retro-peritoneals and 11 in musculis rectis abdominis, 9 hematuries, 2 serous haemorrhages, 8 various haemorrhages) ; 8 "induced" haemorrhages, in which 5 after arterial catheterism, and an accident allergic to the phenyl-indane-dione. Nine deceases were revealed : in which 5 are directly attributed to the hemorrhagic accident (3 cerebro-vascular accidents and 2 serous haemorrhages).