Re: PMB on coumadin

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Apr 30 08:16:24 2007


It appears I've answered my own question ... not recommended. http://health.ucsd.edu/ClinicalResources/BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS.PDF

Art

At Mon, 30 Apr 2007, art fougner, md wrote: >
>With an artificial heart valve?
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>Art
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>At Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Atkinson, Samuel M wrote:
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>>I believe you will find that the antibiotic recommendations do not apply
>>to gyn proc like d&c, cerv bx etc. Of course the last time I pointed it
>>out to anesthesia they insisted intubation was a risk so my pt got Rxed
>>for a CKC/D&C. I do not believe Endo bx re quires prophy Rx.
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>>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Henry
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>>Gregor
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>>Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:12 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>>Subject: Re: PMB on coumadin
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>>Sam,
>>
>>Thanks to you and to all othr respondent listers. Endo bx was my minimum
>>assessment choice, and I guess, without verbalizing it to myself or
>>others, I was wondering whether a hysto/D&C would be warranted. However,
>>I've always felt the literature supports endobx as a very correlative
>>procedure vis a vis hyto/D&C results, so felt - feel - I should go ahead
>>with the sampling I'd usually do. Can't find anything definitive re the
>>abx prophylaxis, so I will go ahead with that.
>>
>>In the last ten years, I've had three ca cases whose presentations were
>>just the scantes amts of pmb...two were localized and WD'd...one was
>>poorly diff'd and fairly diffuse within the cavity, but with less than
>>1/3rd penetration. Years ago, when I was a student, there was a fellow
>>named Fred Hoffmeister (department head, Univ of Wisconsin, I believe)
>>whom I heard speak...he was adamant about bx'g all PM women before
>>initiating HRT. Used to say if bx's weren't done then ca's and atypical
>>aden's hyperplasias would get erroneously attributed to HRT. Most ot the
>>attendings I came in contact as a student and a resident would indicate
>>his view was excessive...however, I bet he didn't miss too many, if any,
>>abnl endometriums.
>>
>>Hank
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>>"Atkinson, Samuel M" <ATKINSONS@ecu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hank: I have had two patients sinilar to yours, altho a bit
>>older that i found endo ca by biopsy. I have taught residents that a bad
>>lesion bleeds earlier on rat poisin and that they all must be biopsied.
>>I admit that not all have endo ca hower.. for whiw.
>> sAm
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>> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net on behalf of Henry Gregor
>> Sent: Fri 4/27/2007 11:47 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>> Subject: PMB on coumadin
>>
>> Listers
>>
>> A 53 yo, LMP 4 years ago, presents with two weeks plus heavy
>>vaginal bleeding, w/o presyncopal sx's. She is on coumadin secondary to
>>hx of mitral valve replacement. INR is 2.3, and pt is w/o petechiae,
>>ecchymoses, or hx of epistaxis or bleeding gums, etc.
>>
>> PE is unremarkable, and a pap (neg hx abnl past ones) is
>>pending. Sono with heterogenous endometrial stripe, at 7 mm. I am
>>planning to do an endometrial pipelle sampling. Comments appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Hank
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>art fougner, md
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