What is your call?: Progressive thrombocytopenia after cardiac surgery in a 67-year-old man

CMAJ

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 929-933

  Kopolovic, Ilana ^a   Warkentin, Theodore E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; PROTAMINE; RIVAROXABAN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84907176614     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.131449     Document Type: Article

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