Oral anticoagulant causes all except: March 2012
Ans: B i.e. Anticaogulant effect both in vivo and in vitro Anticoagulant Warfarin and its congeners act as antiocagulants only in vivo, not in vitro. This is so because they act indirectly by interfering with the synthesis of vitamin K dependent clotting factors in liver. Bleeding is the most impoant problem with anticoagulants; ecchymosis, epistaxis, hematuria, bleeding in gastrointestinal tract. Intracranial or other internal haemorrhages may be fatal.
Interference with synthesis of vitamin K dependent clotting factors
Anticoagulant effect both in vivo and in vitro
Hematuria
Internal haemorrhage2