Apixaban for treatment of confirmed heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: a case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a life and limb-threatening condition caused by the binding of platelet-activating antibodies (IgG) to multimolecular platelet factor 4 (PF4)/heparin complexes because of heparin exposure. The by-product of this interaction is thrombin formation...

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Autores principales: Ezekwudo, Daniel E., Chacko, Rebecca, Gbadamosi, Bolanle, Batool, Syeda, Gaikazian, Sussana, Warkentin, Theodore E., Sheppard, Jo-Ann I., Jaiyesimi, Ishmael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40164-017-0080-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40164-017-0080-7

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