Simsir Sinan A, Schwarz Ernst R, Czer Lawrence S C, Hamburg Solomon I
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Jan;10(1):150-1. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2009.218172. Epub 2009 Oct 1.
We present the case of a man with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and acute idiopathic decompensated cardiomyopathy who underwent successful heart transplantation with the use of bivalirudin as anticoagulant.