PHILADELPHIA -- Current anticoagulant or antiplatelet use is not necessarily a contraindication for administering tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a stroke patient in the emergency department, a ...

According to the American Association for Respiratory Care guidelines for bronchoscopy, "coagulopathy or bleeding diathesis that cannot be corrected" is an absolute contraindication to bronchoscopy.

I have a kidney donor (living-related) who has mild asymptomatic proteinuria on his routine urine analysis; otherwise, all other findings are normal. Is this considered a contraindication for renal ...

Many patients with atrial fibrillation are not taking oral anticoagulation because of an elevated bleeding risk, and this subset faces substantial risks of both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, a new ...

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