AW: [HSF] Warfarin for rings

[Prasanna Simha M]

I am not so sure but then others in the west have the same experience as we
have in India.
Prasanna

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Donald Ross <donross at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Hal and everyone else.
> I thought that was also my policy when a recent repair was put on warfarin
> by  the registrar and developed a tamponade.
> After a shellacking he assured me it was routine with my colleagues and
> indeed it was.
> Prasanna, I do you think you can extrapolate Indian thrombogenicity to
> patients on western diet ?
> Don
>
>
>  Don,
> >  Because of guys like Bob Frater and Tom Martin, I made the switch in
> > January, 2005.  I quit using warfarin other than for postop AF or
> >  mechanical
> > valves.  Since then, I've done several hundred valve procedures  and can
> > only
> > recall one postop embolic stroke in a ring patient.   Obviously, no
> > policy is
> > perfect, but the incidence of warfarin-associated  delayed tamponade has
> > been
> > essentially eliminated from my practice.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> >
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Prasanna Simha M