Outcomes after platelet transfusion in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1419-1421

  Refaai, M A ^a   Chuang, C ^b   Menegus, M ^a   Blumberg, N ^a   Francis, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGATROBAN; HEPARIN; HEPARIN PLATELET FACTOR 4 ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954521462     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2010.03861.x     Document Type: Letter

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