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. 2020 Sep 15;9(9):2984. doi: 10.3390/jcm9092984

Table 3.

Bleeding complications from direct oral anticoagulant use [10,20,22,23,24,25,26,27,30,31,32,33,34,35,37,38,39,42].

BLEEDING COMPLICATIONS
MAJOR BLEEDING Intracranial bleeding (subarachnoid hemorrhage, epidural hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, and intraparenchymal hemorrhage)
Intraspinal hemorrhage
Intraocular hemorrhage (retinal or vitreous hemorrhage)
Hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade/hemopericardium
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
Joint hematoma, traumatic or non-traumatic
Hemoperitoneum, atraumatic splenic rupture
CLINICALLY RELEVANT NON-MAJOR BLEEDING (CRNMB) Genitourinary–Hematuria, vaginal bleeding, abnormal uterine bleeding
Respiratory tract–hemoptysis, gingival bleeding, epistaxis
Intramuscular–Rectus sheath hematoma
Skin/subcutaneous–Bruising