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No this is a very different form of clotting caused by auto antibodies that causes both clotting and low platelet counts. It's similar to HIT. Giving heparin in
by m-ee 6y ago
No this is a very different form of clotting caused by auto antibodies that causes both clotting and low platelet counts. It's similar to HIT. Giving heparin in this situation would make things worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin-induced_thrombocytopenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin-induced_thrombocytopen...