To be or not to be a case of heparin resistance

To be or not to be a case of heparin resistance

Heparin resistance can be defined as high doses of unfractionated heparin (UFH), greater than 35,000 IU/day, required to raise the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and activated coagulation time (ACT) to within therapeutically desired ranges or the impossibility of doing so. The most com...

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Main Authors: Jibran Durrani, Faizan Malik, Naveed Ali, Syed Imran Mustafa Jafri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Subjects:
Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT)
anti-thrombin III (ATIII)
activated coagulation time (ACT)
unfractionated heparin(UFH)
low molecular weight heparin(LMWH)
anti-factor 10a (AF 10a)
pulmonary embolism (PE)
disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1466599

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