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Alfonso Tafur

Researcher at NorthShore University HealthSystem

Publications -  147
Citations -  5501

Alfonso Tafur is an academic researcher from NorthShore University HealthSystem. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 131 publications receiving 3584 citations. Previous affiliations of Alfonso Tafur include Cardiovascular Institute of the South & University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

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Natural language processor as a tool to assess heparin induced thrombocytopenia awareness.

Alfonso Tafur, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: Both appropriate platelet count monitoring and HIT awareness are low at this large teaching institution and software tools for monitoring awareness and providing realtime alerts of significant platelet counts decrements may be useful.
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Pancreatic cancer thromboembolic outcomes: rate of thrombosis after adenocarcinoma and non-adenocarcinoma pancreatic cancer surgery

Luis Diaz Quintero, +10 more
- 16 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: The rate of VTE in NACPC after surgery was high and not different than ACPC, and Histology type should not govern discrimination in thromboprophylaxis selection or extension.
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Budd-chiari syndrome, mediastinal mass and recalcitrant leg ulcers, an unlikely trio

Alfonso Tafur, +3 more
- 01 Aug 2010 - 
TL;DR: A 59 year old non-smoker male presented with a long history of recalcitrant lower extremity ulcers, classified as Budd-Chiari type I whereby the thrombus was limited to the intrahepatic inferior vena cava, not directly compromising the hepatic veins.
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115 Predictors of active cancer thromboembolic outcomes: validation of the Khorana score among patients with lung cancer

Aaron S. Mansfield, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
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Real-Time Dissemination of Aggregate Data on Presentation and Outcomes of Patients With Venous Thromboembolism: The RIETE Infographics Project:

Alfonso Tafur, +13 more
- 16 Sep 2020 - 
TL;DR: The aims, rationale, methods, and ongoing and future efforts of the real-time VTE infographics developed by the RIETE registry collaborators are described.