Major bleeding and severe thrombocytopenia after combined heparin and abciximab - c7E3 fab therapy

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-87

  Claeys, L G Y ^a   Berg, W ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abciximab; Acute limb ischemia; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; PROTAMINE SULFATE; HEMATOLOGIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG COMBINATION; INJURY; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMATOLOGIC AGENTS; HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037270537     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.2002.1757     Document Type: Article

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