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Overdiagnosis of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in Surgical ICU Patients

✍ Scribed by Cherisse Berry; Oxana Tcherniantchouk; Eric J. Ley; Ali Salim; James Mirocha; Sylvia Martin-Stone; Dennis Stolpner; Daniel R. Margulies


Book ID
113680484
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
520 KB
Volume
213
Category
Article
ISSN
1072-7515

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## Abstract Heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is caused by platelet‐activating antibodies that recognize platelet factor 4//heparin (PF4/H) complexes. According to the β€œiceberg model,” only a subset of anti‐PF4/heparin antibodies of IgG class evincing strong platelet‐activating properties caus