Prevalence of heparin-induced antibodies
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Iván Palomo; Jaime Pereira; Marcelo Alarcón; Gonzalo Díaz; Patricia Hidalgo; Isa
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) type II is a serious complication of heparin therapy. It presents initially as thrombocytopenia, and is associated with thrombosis in 20-50% of the cases. HIT is related to the presence of heparin-induced antibodies (HIA), which show specificity for the PF4hepa