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Heart transplantation using bivalirudin as anticoagulant.

Simsir SA, Schwarz ER, Czer LS, Hamburg SI

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA. Sinan.simsir@cshs.org

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.

Published 18 December 2009 in Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg, 10(1): 150-1.
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