In vitro norepinephrine significantly activates isolated platelets from healthy volunteers and critically ill patients following severe traumatic brain injury

INTRODUCTION: Norepinephrine, regularly used to increase systemic arterial blood pressure and thus improve cerebral perfusion following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), may activate platelets. This, in turn, could promote microthrombosis formation and induce additional brain damage. METHODS: The...

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Autores principales: Tschuor, Christoph, Asmis, Lars M, Lenzlinger, Philipp M, Tanner, Martina, Härter, Luc, Keel, Marius, Stocker, Reto, Stover, John F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18564410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc6931

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