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SUBMITTER: Lee D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281513 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lee Daniel D DeFilipp Zachariah Z Judson Kenneth K Kennedy Margaret M
Journal of cardiology cases 20130429 1
We report a 66-year-old male with a history of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery who began dabigatran for new onset atrial fibrillation. After 5 weeks of therapy, his transesophageal echocardiogram prior to electrocardioversion showed severe spontaneous echo contrast. Cardioversion was postponed and anticoagulant therapy was continued. The following day, he suffered a thromboembolic stroke. Concern arose that postoperative malabsorption could have resulted in subtherapeutic anticoagulation. This ...[more]