• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · May 2017

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    Low dose bivalirudin anticoagulation for lung transplantation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a patient with acute heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

    • Andreas Koster, Jost Niedermeyer, Jan Gummert, and Andre Renner.
    • Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
    • Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2017 May 1; 51 (5): 1009-1011.

    AbstractA patient scheduled for lung transplantation needed veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and developed acute heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). After 21 days on ECMO support, lung transplantation was successfully performed using veno-arterial ECMO with bivalirudin anticoagulation. The target activating clotting time values of 160-180 s resulted in low bivalirudin infusion rates of 0.1 mg/kg/h. Diffuse bleeding stopped quickly after ending the continuous bivalirudin infusion.© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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