Deans' stroke musings: Moms, Babies OK with Low-Dose Warfarin

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Moms, Babies OK with Low-Dose Warfarin

In case you need to worry about this.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/PCI/31625

It appears to be safe for young women with new-generation aortic valves to maintain a low dose of warfarin therapy during pregnancy, a small pilot study found.

All 17 women who had a mechanical aortic valve and were on a regimen of 5 mg or less of warfarin a day delivered healthy babies by cesarean section, reported Luca S. De Santo, MD, from the University of Foggia in Naples, Italy, and colleagues.

Three women with bioprostheses (two mitral, one aortic) who were taking more than 5 mg of warfarin a day also delivered healthy babies, and at a mean of 59 months follow-up showed no signs of structural valve degeneration, researchers wrote in the March 20 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Despite the excellent results of this study, the researchers cautioned that the patients were highly selected and closely monitored.

They received extensive pre-pregnancy counseling regarding valve choice and anticoagulation therapeutic options.