Bilateral adrenal hemorrhage: The unrecognized cause of hemodynamic collapse associated with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 833-838

  Rosenberger, Laura H ^a   Smith, Philip W ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Hanks, John B ^a   Adams, Reid B ^a   Hedrick, Traci L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

adrenal hemorrhage; adrenal insufficiency; anticoagulation; heparin; thrombocytopenia; thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ARGATROBAN; CORTICOTROPIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; TROPONIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BILATERAL ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OLIGURIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

EID: 79953231151     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318206d0eb     Document Type: Review

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