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|Articles|July 13, 2009

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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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