
#99 Bleeding vs. Clotting Risk: Gray Matters Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is a Doe Act the Right Choice?
Even in the clinical trials of the pixaban versus low molecular weight heparin for cancer associated thrombosis 6% of the patients on a pixaban had a recurrent clot in the first six months while they were still on the drug. So it's not such a rare thing that a cancer patients clot worsens while on anticoagulation. Going forward I think I'll have to remember to consider clot formation in patients onAnticoagulation especially if it's a patient who might have cancer.
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