Hats off to hit: a case report
Oman Medical Journal. 2012; 27 (3): 239-242
in English
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| ID: emr-144387
ABSTRACT
Thrombocytopenia is a well- recognized complication of heparin therapy. The diagnosis is mostly clinical and the main value of laboratory testing is in excluding the diagnosis. We describe here a patient with stroke who had aspiration pneumonia leading to sepsis. She developed atrial fibrillation and received heparin which had to be stopped prematurely due to melena. Within 5 days of heparin, she had thrombocytopenia which was heparin-induced thrombocytopenia [HIT], but the diagnosis was missed initially as heparin was no longer on the drug chart
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Index:
IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Platelet Count
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Platelet Function Tests
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Thrombocytopenia
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Heparin
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Anticoagulants
Type of study:
Case report
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Oman Med. J.
Year:
2012
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