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Thrombocytopenia and low-dose heparin
Southern Medical Journal
|April 1, 1983
Abstract:
We present two cases in which thrombocytopenia developed during low-dose heparin therapy. They seem to represent the spectrum of heparin-associated thrombocytopenia described by Carreras. Because of the increasing use of low-dose heparin for thromboembolism prophylaxis, and because patient reexposure to heparin is not uncommon, the identification of even a modest fall in platelet count in association with heparin therapy is important.