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Study supports enoxaparin use in pregnant women with thrombophilic disorder

Published in Blood Weekly, July 29th, 2004

Enoxaparin, a low-molecular-weight heparin, is superior to low-dose aspirin in treating thrombophilic disorder in pregnant women who've already experienced one unexplained pregnancy loss, report hematologists in France.

According to a paper by J.C. Gris and colleagues, CHU, Group Hospital University Caremeau, Nimes, in the journal Blood, "The prospective evaluation of the effect of thromboprophylaxis in women with one unexplained pregnancy loss from the 10th week of amenorrhea was performed. A total of 160 patients with heterozygous factor V Leiden mutation, prothrombin G20210A mutation, or protein S deficiency were given 5 mg folic acid daily before conception,...

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