Measurement of heparin-dependent platelet antibodies in the diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: Fact or fiction?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1784-1785

  Parker, Robert I ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heparin dependent platelet antibodies; Heparin induced thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY;

DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; PLATELET FACTOR 4; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTONIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 34250855085     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000269359.71847.66     Document Type: Editorial

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