[Skin necrosis with vitamin K antagonists: An imbalance between coagulant and anticoagulant factors].
CONCLUSION: Skin necrosis is due to a transient hypercoagulable state during the initiation of vitamin K antagonist treatment due to an imbalance between pro- and anticoagulant factors. In our case, it was caused by an activated protein C resistance and an inflammatory syndrome.
PMID: 27263119 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue de Medecine Interne - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Rev Med Interne Source Type: research
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