The particle gel immunoassay as a rapid test to rule out heparin-induced thrombocytopenia?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 781-783

  Schallmoser, Katharina ^a   Drexler, Camilla ^a   Rohde, Eva ^a   Strunk, Dirk ^a   Groselj Strele, Andrea ^a   Lanzer, Gerhard ^a   Kroll, Hartmut ^b   Panzer, Simon ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Institute for Transfusion Medicine Dessau   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60949089385     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.03.044     Document Type: Article

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