Warfarin is one of the most widely used drugs in the world for a variety of indications involving the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic phenomena. Even after 60 years of its use, warfarin's ...

9 Akershus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lørenskog, Norway Objective To establish expert consensus on prescreening and contraindications to moderate-to-vigorous ...

The absolute contraindications for laparoscopic cholecystectomy from the 1980s (pregnancy, previous abdominal surgery, bowel obstruction, coagulopathy, obesity, cirrhosis, inability to tolerate ...

Haloperidol is a traditional or conventional antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia, mania and other forms of psychosis. It is a derivative of butyrophenone and it acts by blocking the effects of ...

Knee replacement surgery is performed in patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis or other arthritis that causes severe pain and limit mobility. Knee replacement surgery is performed to improve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . None of us likes to have to tell a patient, “You are not a good candidate for LASIK.” When you do find yourself ...

Many patients with atrial fibrillation are not taking oral anticoagulation because of an elevated bleeding risk, and this subset faces substantial risks of both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, a new ...

Appropriate drug prescribing is an ongoing challenge and may at times generate controversy. Whether we have adequate and reliable data to alter our prescribing of the antihyperglycemic agent metformin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In reality, there is no absolute contraindication for the direct anterior approach. I use the direct anterior ...