Delayed-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and cerebral thrombosis after a single administration of unfractionated heparin [7]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1067-1069

  Warkentin, Theodore E ^a   Bernstein, Richard A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; OBESITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET FACTOR 4; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0037434883     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200303133481120     Document Type: Letter

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