The Seventh American College of Chest Physicians Guidelines for the antenatal and peripartum management of thrombophilia: A tutorial.

The latest guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolism were published by the American College of Chest Physicians in September 2004. This set of updated guidelines represents a discussion of treatments of venous thrombosis, thromboprophylaxis, and revision of those published in 2001. These guidelines propose some "official" recommendations for health-care providers for women during the peripartum period. The purpose of this article is to settle some ambiguity and to present these recommendations in a clinical format.