Urgent cardiac surgery in a patient with a remote history of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: Use of the anti-PF4/heparin ELISA confirmatory test

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 379-381

  Dellaria, Suzanne M ^a,b   Greilich, Philip E ^a   Sarode, Ravindra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; HEPARIN; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SCREENING; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEART SURGERY; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMERGENCIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET FACTOR 4; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 49949086879     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318172af0f     Document Type: Article

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