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L Salmi1, C Leroy-Matheron, P LeBesnerais

  • 1Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, CHU Henri-Mondor, 94010 Créteil, France. zergbh@noos.fr

A type II heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) was diagnosed in a 64-year-old woman at day 20 of intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) therapy, given after myocardial infarction treated by angioplasty and intracoronary stent. The infarction was complicated by a mitral insufficiency that led to a mitral valve replacement. Cardiopulmonary bypass was successfully performed with sodium danaparoid (Orgaran), as an alternative to UFH, without thrombotic or haemorrhagic complications and the follow-up was uneventful.

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