Anticoagulant therapy after acute myocardial infarction

The use of anticoagulant therapy for patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction is still controversial, mainly because early major studies had conflicting findings, but reanalysis of the data did produce evidence that anticoagulation had clinically and statistically significant benefits. Now more evidence, including the results of a 10-day in-hospital study of low- and high-dose calcium heparin, has been gathered to support using …