Reduced-Intensity Anticoagulation for Mechanical Aortic Valve Prostheses

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¹ Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Division of Cardiac Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: Richard.Whitlock@phri.ca.
² Brigham and Women's Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/DLBHATTMD.
³ Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Richard P Whitlock et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018.

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. 2018 Jun 19;71(24):2727-2730.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.04.018.

¹ Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Division of Cardiac Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: Richard.Whitlock@phri.ca.
² Brigham and Women's Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/DLBHATTMD.
³ Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: anticoagulation; mechanical heart valve; warfarin.

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