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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Vascular Medicine Series: How to Choose Your Anticoagulant
Description: Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D.
Guest: Ana I. Casanegra, M.D., M.S.
For many decades, we really only had one option for providing chronic anticoagulation, warfarin. We learned how to manage the many drug and food interactions, frequently changing the warfarin dose as we tried to keep our patients in therapeutic range. Now we have a variety of choices with the direct-acting oral anticoagulants, or DOAC’s. How do the newer agents compare to warfarin in effectiveness? Are they really safer than warfarin? Do they ever require any monitoring? What’s the latest on r...