Patients with a pulmonary embolism (PE; a blood clot in the lungs) are usually kept in hospital to receive anticoagulation with an injected drug, such as tinzaparin, until an oral anticoagulant becomes effective (warfarin). This has been the preferred way of treating patients with a similar but less serious condition, deep vein thrombosis (DVT; blood clots in the legs), for some years. [click link for full article]
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