Heparin-coated hemodialyzers - The holy grail for patients at risk of bleeding?

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Evenepoel, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; DRUG ADSORPTION; FIBRINOLYSIS; FLOW KINETICS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAFETY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 2642517879     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077587     Document Type: Note

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