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Effects on bleeding complications of pharmacogenetic testing for initial dosing of vitamin K antagonists: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 1 Sept 2014
Franchini M, Mengoli C, Cruciani M, Bonfanti C, Mannucci P M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although warfarin and other vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) are the most widely used oral anticoagulants for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic events, a number of factors hamper their manageability, the most important being the inter-individual variability of the therapeutic dose requirement. Following the discovery of the influence of CYP2C9 and VKORC1 polymorphisms on VKA dose...
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