Perioperative thrombocytopenia in cardiac surgical patients - incidence of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, morbidities and mortality

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1391-1395

  Thielmann, Matthias ^a   Bunschkowski, Marlene ^a   Tossios, Paschalis ^a   Selleng, Sixten ^b   Marggraf, Günter ^a   Greinacher, Andreas ^b   Jakob, Heinz ^a   Massoudy, Parwis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Chefartz Klinik für Herzchirurgie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Heparin induced thrombocytopenia; Sepsis; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ARGATROBAN; HEPARIN; LEPIRUDIN; PROTAMINE;

AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD PLATELETS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 77952584389     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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