Clinical Experience with Anticoagulant Therapy During Pregnancy

Fourteen patients were treated with anticoagulants during 15 pregnancies. Eleven had venous thrombosis, three with pulmonary embolism; three had prosthetic heart valves; and one had mitral stenosis with pulmonary hypertension. All 15 were treated with heparin and 10 with warfarin. The mean duration of heparin therapy was 4.5 weeks and of warfarin 14 weeks. There were two minor episodes of recurrent thromboembolism and three minor haemorrhagic …