Professional guidelines recommend LMWH and DOACs over UFH for the majority of patients hospitalized for acute PE. Yet physicians expressed general indifference toward anticoagulation choice, ...

UFH is also less expensive than LMWH and other types of heparin. LMWH lasts longer than UFH and its effects are easier to predict. And you won’t need frequent blood tests.

Anticoagulants, also known as blood thinners, help stop your blood from thickening, or clotting, when it’s not necessary. Find out more about the different types of anticoagulants.

A comparison between patients who received UFH, LMWH, or both anticoagulants is provided in Supplementary Table S1. There were no clinical or demographic differences among patients based on the choice ...

Adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and treated with either unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) for hypercoagulation complications show significant decrease in ...

Researchers sought to compare the effectiveness of UFH and LMWH in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with hypercoagulation complications. They initiated a retrospective analytical observational ...

A total of 98 patients were evaluated, 35 of whom were treated with UFH and 63 of whom were treated with LMWH. Overall, 52% of participants were women; 30.6% of patients were older than 60 years of ...

Researchers sought to compare the effectiveness of UFH and LMWH in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with hypercoagulation complications. They initiated a retrospective analytical observational ...