Acute Limb Ischemia After Cardiac Surgery: Looking for the White Clot Syndrome

Two weeks after undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, a 59-year-old patient presented with acute right-limb ischemia. The probability of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia was high and heparin antibody immunoassays were positive, so heparin anticoagulation was replaced by argatroban....

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Main Authors: Rémy Hamdan, Valentin Crespy, Georges Tarris, Philippe Savard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American College of Physicians 2022-05-01
Series:Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
Online Access:https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0091
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