Your daily dose of clinical tips and quips: Heparin.
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“Heparin is ineffective in the absence of adequate antithrombin concentrations, so heparin would not be expected to work as a prophylactic anticoagulant in animals with diseases associated with antithrombin deficiency (e.g. protein-losing nephropathy or enteropathy).”
-Bryan E. Harnett, DVM, and Marie E. Kerl, DVM, DACVIM, DACVECC
From Unfractionated and low-molecular-weight heparin for hypercoagulability in dogs and cats
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