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1Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Abstract:
A case of heparin resistance and its management during cardiopulmonary bypass is reported. A patient with a history of post-infarct angina and arrhythmias was treated with intravenous heparin infusion for five days prior to myocardial revascularisation surgery. He required 13,500 IU/kg of heparin to increase his activated clotting time to a therapeutic level for safe institution of cardiopulmonary bypass. This phenomenon of heparin resistance was postulated to be due to consumption of circulating antithrombin III as a result of prior heparinisation. Treatment with fresh frozen plasma restored heparin effectiveness.
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