Catastrophic complication following heparin therapy

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1096-1098

  Pantula, Narasinga Rao ^a   Vedula, Kartik ^b  

^a KAMINENI HOSPITALS   (India)

^b OSMANIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

gangrene; heparin; HIT; thrombocytopenia; thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; CARDIOPLEGIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; HEPARIN PLATELET FACTOR 4 ANTIBODY; HIRULOG; INOTROPIC AGENT; STERILE WATER; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULATION; AORTOPULMONARY SHUNT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOREARM; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HAND EDEMA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOCRIT; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBUS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTILATOR; AMPUTATION; ARM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; PULMONARY ATRESIA; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS;

AMPUTATION; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARM; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; PULMONARY ATRESIA; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84908889943     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: 18165370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492313493428     Document Type: Article

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