High‐dose IVIG plus cangrelor platelet “anesthesia” during urgent heparin‐CPB in a patient with recent SRA‐negative HIT‐thrombosis with persisting platelet‐activating antibodies

High‐dose IVIG plus cangrelor platelet “anesthesia” during urgent heparin‐CPB in a patient with recent SRA‐negative HIT‐thrombosis with persisting platelet‐activating antibodies

Abstract In a high‐risk patient with subacute heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) type A (platelet count recovery following acute HIT but with persisting platelet‐activating antibodies), in whom urgent cardiac surgery was required, a key clinical question arose: could intraoperative heparin be gi...

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Main Authors: Andreas Koster, Ishac Nazy, Ingvild E. Birschmann, James W. Smith, Jo‐Ann I. Sheppard, Theodore E. Warkentin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Subjects:
antibodies
cardiopulmonary bypass
heparin
intravenous immunoglobulin
thrombocytopenia
thrombosis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/rth2.12348

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