Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use

Heparin is an anticoagulant, which is frequently used in hospitalized patients for prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Subcutaneous administration of heparin may lead to complications such as bruising, hematoma, and pain at the injection site. Hematomas can develop without visible bruising, a...

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Autores principales: Koratala, Abhilash, Bhattacharya, Deepti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1291
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description Heparin is an anticoagulant, which is frequently used in hospitalized patients for prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Subcutaneous administration of heparin may lead to complications such as bruising, hematoma, and pain at the injection site. Hematomas can develop without visible bruising, as in our case.
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spelling pubmed-57719012018-01-26 Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use Koratala, Abhilash Bhattacharya, Deepti Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Heparin is an anticoagulant, which is frequently used in hospitalized patients for prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Subcutaneous administration of heparin may lead to complications such as bruising, hematoma, and pain at the injection site. Hematomas can develop without visible bruising, as in our case. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5771901/ /pubmed/29375872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1291 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_full Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use
title_fullStr Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use
title_full_unstemmed Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use
title_short Subcutaneous hematomas from prophylactic heparin use
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375872
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