title: The Seventh American College of Chest Physicians Guidelines for the antenatal and peripartum management of thrombophilia: A tutorial.
abstract: The latest guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolism were published by the American College of Chest Physicians in September 2004. This set of updated guidelines represents a discussion of treatments of venous thrombosis, thromboprophylaxis, and revision of those published in 2001. These guidelines propose some "official" recommendations for health-care providers for women during the peripartum period. The purpose of this article is to settle some ambiguity and to present these recommendations in a clinical format.
authors.affiliation: Hemato-gynecology service, Institute of Hematology, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, 49100 Israel. doritb2@clalit.org.il
authors.forename: Dorit
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blickstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D036801:Parturition; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011250:Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic / Q000628:therapy*; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012955:Societies, Medical; D019851:Thrombophilia / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy