Case Report - (2015) Volume 6, Issue 4
Anticoagulant Managements of Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in
Two Patients with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT): Use of
Argatroban as an Anticoagulant for Cardiopulmonary Bypass
- Kazutomo Saito1*, Hiroaki Toyama1, Yutaka Ejima1, Kenji Kurotaki1, Masanori Yamauchi1 and Shin Kurosawa2
- 1Department of Anesthesiology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
- 2Department of Anesthesiology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
*Corresponding Author:
Kazutomo Saito, Department of Anesthesiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan, Tel: +81-022-717-7321, Fax: +81-022-717-7325
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