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Heparin-like effect contributes to the coagulopathy in patients with acute liver failure undergoing liver transplantation

INTRODUCTION: Liver transplantation (LT) in cirrhotics is characterized by severe coagulopathy, associated with a well documented heparin-like effect (HLE) seen by thromboelastography (TEG™) after reperfusion. The amount of HLE present in patients with acute liver failure (ALF) and its role in their...

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Autores principales: Senzolo, Marco, Agarwal, Seema, Zappoli, Paola, Vibhakorn, Sushang, Mallett, Susan, Burroughs, Andrew K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19220741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-3231.2009.01977.x