Findings
bleeding
EVENTS, THROMBOEMBOLIC EVENT, BLEEDING
In this randomized clinical trial, 272 patients undergoing bariatric surgery were assigned to 10 mg of rivaroxaban for 7 or 28 days. Overall, a single asymptomatic thromboembolic event (0.4%) occurred in a patient undergoing sleeve gastrectomy in the long prophylaxis group, and major bleeding and clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding events occurred in 5 patients (1.9%).