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Surreptitious Ingestion of Warfarin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. D. Forbes ,
C. R. M. Prentice  and
A. B. Sclare
C. D. Forbes
Affiliation:
University Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, G4 oSF
C. R. M. Prentice
Affiliation:
University Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, G4 oSF
A. B. Sclare
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Eastern District Hospital, Glasgow, G31 1HY
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Surreptitious ingestion of anticoagulant drugs is a rare condition which presents as an obscure bleeding tendency associated with gross depletion of the vitamin K dependent factors (factors II, VII, IX and X). In all previously reported cases the patients have denied taking drugs but chemical analysis of the plasma has shown the presence of members of the coumarin or indanedione groups.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 586 , September 1974 , pp. 245 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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