Bleeding incidence after oral surgery with continued oral anticoagulation.

  • Wolfgang Eichhorn
  • Jens Burkert
  • Oliver Vorwig
  • Marco Blessmann
  • Georg Cachovan
  • Jürgen Zeuch
  • Marc Eichhorn
  • Max Heiland

Abstract

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the incidence of postoperative hemorrhage in patients treated with coumarins without interruption of the anticoagulant treatment undergoing oral surgical procedures, mostly osteotomies for tooth removal, when compared with patients who had never been anticoagulated.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number5
ISSN1432-6981
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22160538