When do you start anticoagulation in patients with endocarditis and evidence of mycotic aneursym?
Answer from: at Community Practice
True estimates of the risk of anticoagulation in endocarditis is hard to come by, since anticoagulation is not common in practice and likely the risk is dynamic and decreases with antibiotic treatment. If one considers thrombolysis as a guide, the presence of endocarditis appears to increase the ris...
I believe and had practiced that any kind of anticoagulants are contraindicated due to risk of bleeding. Mycotic aneurysms are the byproducts of infective endocarditis and therefore treating infective endocarditis is an emergency in order to prevent further formation of mycotic aneurysms and potenti...