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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1574-1575
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Heath U. Jones, BS, Joseph B. Muhlestein, MD, Kent W. Jones, MD, Dale G. Renlund, MD, Tami L. Bair, BS, Thomas Jared Bunch, MD, Benjamin D. Horne, PhD, MPH, Donald L. Lappé, MD, Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, Donald B. Doty, MD

Cardiovascular Department, LDS Hospital and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84143, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905

(Email: brent.muhlestein@ihc.com).

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To the Editor:

We appreciate the interest that Kulik and colleagues [1] have shown in our article describing our observational findings of the hemorrhagic risk associated with postoperative anticoagulation after cardiac surgery [2]. We appreciate their careful critique and have performed further analysis, and we would like to respond to their comments.

In our study, we included all patients who received postoperative anticoagulation any time during the postsurgical hospital stay. Our database does not contain individual postoperative anticoagulation initiation times, but in general our institutional practice has been to initiate anticoagulation 24 to 48 hours after surgery. In most instances, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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