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Heparin induced thrombocytopenia causing life-threatening postoperative haemorrhage
1Mater Hospital Trust, Belfast.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
Heparin is ubiquitously employed in surgery in the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disorders. A small but significant number of patients receiving heparin develop thrombocytopenia and are at risk of both serious thromboembolic disease and haemorrhage. A case is reported where a young woman developed life-threatening postoperative haemorrhage associated with heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).