Case Report. Non-Obvious, Post-Traumatic, Life-Threatening Bleeding in Two Elderly Patients

Abstract

The main complication of anticoagulant therapy is major bleeding. Clinicians are usually aware of these side effects and are careful when managing the therapeutic range of vitamin K antagonist drugs. But major bleeding, while lifethreatening, can be overlooked if there are no visible signs of bleeding. Two cases are described in which inaccurate diagnoses lead to inadequate treatment.

Keywords

• vitamin k antagonists
• major bleeding
• prothrombin complex concentrate