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Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction secondary to vaccine-induced immune thrombosis with thrombocytopaenia (VITT)

A 40-year-old man with no cardiac history presented with central chest pain 8 days after receiving the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine against COVID-19. Initial blood tests demonstrated a thrombocytopaenia (24×10(9) μg/L) and a raised d-dimer (>110 000 μg/L), and he was urgently transferred to our tertia...

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Autores principales: Flower, Luke, Bares, Zdenek, Santiapillai, Georgina, Harris, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34580132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-245218