Anesthesia & Clinical Research

Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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ISSN: 2155-6148

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 Email:

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