Scharfstein J, Loscalzo J
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.
Hosp Pract (Off Ed). 1992 May 15;27(5):77-86. doi: 10.1080/21548331.1992.11705417.
Several new approaches to direct and indirect inhibition of thrombin formation or activity promise to extend the benefits of pharmacologic antithrombotic interventions, both prophylactically and in acute therapy. Preliminary studies have found the new agents to be more specific and hemostatically safer than warfarin or heparin.