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My mom on warfarin, and admitted to do a cardiac surgery.. they stop warfarin and replace it by heparin .. what is the reason for that?

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Heparin acts: in a different way on intrinsic pathway , can manipulate better during surgery and post surgery , then the doctors will switch back to warfarin by discharge time .

Answered 2/24/2015

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