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Severe Thrombotic Complication of Eltrombopag in a Cirrhotic Patient

We present a patient with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and cirrhosis who was treated with eltrombopag for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and was incidentally found to have a right atrial thrombus with extension into the left internal jugular vein. Eltrombopag was discontinued and the patient was tre...

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Autores principales: Baumann, Alexandra J., Wheeler, David S., Varadi, Gabor, Feyssa, Eyob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26958566
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2016.20