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Self-Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy Improves Long-Term Survival in Patients With Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement  Heinrich Koertke, MD,

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1 Self-Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy Improves Long-Term Survival in Patients With Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement  Heinrich Koertke, MD, Armin Zittermann, PhD, Otto Wagner, Reiner Koerfer, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages (January 2007) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Distribution of the international normalized ratio (INR) values of patients with INR self-management (SEM group) and of patients who had their INR values measured by the general practitioner (controlled [CON] group). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , 24-29DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan Meier survival estimates for patients with self-management (SEM group) of their international normalized ratio (INR) values in comparison with patients who had their INR values measured by the general practitioner (controlled [CON] group). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , 24-29DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

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