A 48-yr-old man was scheduled for dental extractions under general anesthesia. He had been on rivaroxaban for ten months (having been on warfarin for the prior three decades) because of multiple episodes of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. These episodes had occurred despite continuous anticoagulation and use of anti-embolic stockings. Physical examination revealed lower limb congestion with pitting edema, venous varicosities, stasis dermatitis, skin ulceration (Figure A), as well as some dilated and thrombosed superficial abdominal veins.
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