Transient pseudothrombocytopenia associated with immune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia complicated by pulmonary embolism

Ann B. Zimrin; Theodore E. Warkentin

doi:10.1160/TH12-12-0908

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Thromb Haemost 2013; 109(05): 971-973
DOI: 10.1160/TH12-12-0908

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Transient pseudothrombocytopenia associated with immune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia complicated by pulmonary embolism

Ann B. Zimrin

¹Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Theodore E. Warkentin

²Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Department of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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