Phlegmasia cerulea dolens following heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

2018/01/01 by Deepesh Aggarwal, Shilpa Bhojraj, Ali Behrainwalla +2 · 1 citation
Medicine · #Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis #Intramuscular injections and effects #Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management #Medicine #Heparin #Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia #Thrombosis #Bypass grafting #Surgery #Artery

paper · pdf · doi:10.4103/ijccm.ijccm_183_16

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Abstract

The authors present a case of a 49-year-old woman who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting after suffering from an acute coronary syndrome and later developed phlegmasia cerulea dolens with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and HIT thrombosis (HITT).

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