Rapid-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia without previous heparin exposure

Platelets

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 495-498

  Olah, Zsolt ^a   Kerenyi, Adrienne ^a   Kappelmayer, Janos ^a   Schlammadinger, Agota ^a   Razso, Katalin ^a   Boda, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibodies; Heparin; Limb gangrene; Platelet factor 4; Sepsis; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; AMIKACIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; HEPARIN PLATELET FACTOR 4 ANTIBODY; HIRUDIN; HYDROXYUREA; PADGEM PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ENOXAPARIN; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET FACTOR 4; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84864842060     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2011.650245     Document Type: Article

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