Kouerinis Ilias A, Kourtesis Antonios, El-Ali Mahmoud, Sergentanis Theodoros, Plagou Athena, Argiriou Michalis, Theakos Nikolaos, Giannakopoulou Aikaterini
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2008 Aug;7(4):560-3. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2007.161679. Epub 2007 Dec 3.
The aim of the present protocol is to investigate the potency of thromboelastography (TEG) to screen postcardiac heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) patients suspicious for HIT type II, and to differentiate which of them are subject to suffer thrombotic complications from those who will suffer hemorrhagic complications.