Anticoagulation therapy during pregnancy and puerperium

ABSTRACT

Thrombotic complications are three to five times higher than non-pregnant women and even in pregnant women anticoagulant therapy is indicated for the prevention and treatment of a number of cardiac and non-cardiac conditions. This therapy may have some serious concerns for the safety of the new life in the womb of the mother or to the mother if she has to undergo some type of operative delivery. Whether, anti-coagulation is achieved with oral or injectable drugs, we must be fully aware of the pharmacology, and the means to control the undesirable side effects