• ASAIO J. · Jul 2005

    Case Reports

    Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with lepirudin anticoagulation for Wegener's granulomatosis with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

    • Sendhil K Balasubramanian, Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, Shimonti Chatterjee, Andrew Sosnowski, and Richard K Firmin.
    • Department of ECMO and Cardiac Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, United Kingdom.
    • ASAIO J. 2005 Jul 1;51(4):477-9.

    AbstractVenovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with lepirudin anticoagulation was successfully used for a complicated case of Wegener's granulomatosis and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Interestingly, a linear correlation was found between activated partial thromboplastin time and activated clotting time during lepirudin anticoagulation.

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