Population
Cardiac surgery patients, particularly those with intraaortic balloon pumps, at risk for or presenting with…
Design
Review
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May warrant consideration in select cardiac surgery HIT cases; leaves open need for randomized trials before practice change.
This review highlights the diagnostic challenges of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in cardiac surgery and suggests bivalirudin as a potential first-line direct thrombin inhibitor.
Steele et al. (2013) studied this question.
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