• Am. J. Hematol. · Jun 2007

    Case Reports

    Bilateral adrenal hemorrhage associated with heparin induced thrombocytopenia.

    • Leon E Kurtz and Sarah Yang.
    • Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York.
    • Am. J. Hematol. 2007 Jun 1;82(6):493-4.

    AbstractHeparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is associated with serious and sometimes devastating thrombotic events. We report a case of bilateral adrenal hemorrhage (BAH) associated with HIT after prophylactic use of low molecular weight heparin. The vague presenting symptoms of acute adrenal insufficiency offers a diagnostic challenge, which if delayed may be life threatening. A high index of suspicion for adrenal hemorrhage is required in patients receiving any form of heparin therapy presenting with new onset thrombocytopenia, abdominal pain, and fevers.(c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…